Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 32

• When you need a friend, you can always count on your teammates.

  Jim Brown

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal.

  Dianne Holum

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

  Ted Simmons

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

  Bill Bradley

  Success, Sports, Athlete

  Bill Bradley (2009). “Life on the Run”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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• You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

  Jim Bouton

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

  Don Coryell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

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• You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

  A. J. Kitt

  Inspirational, Sports, Acceptance

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• What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Ain't no chance if you dont take it.

  Guy Clark

  Sports, Determination, Chance

  Song: Picasso's Mandolin, Album: Boats to Build, 1992

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• Do your best, one shot at a time, and then move on.

  Nancy Lopez

  Motivational, Sports, Fitness

  Nancy Lopez (1989). “Nancy Lopez's the Complete Golfer”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

  Don Shula

  Motivational, Sports, Work

  Don Shula (1995). “Everyone's a Coach: You Can Inspire Anyone to be a Winner”, Zondervan

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• You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

  Jon Gruden

  Motivational, Sports, Get Better

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• I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

  Tony Dungy

  Motivational, Sports, Player

  Interview with Cindy Crosby, www.bookreporter.com. December 7, 2007.

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• As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

  Kevin Keegan

  Sports, Gun, Bullets

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• I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

  Al Oerter

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

  Robin Williams

  Sports, Lacrosse, Church

  1982 Interview in Playboy.

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• There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

  George Foreman

  Inspirational, Sports, Boxing

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• My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Sports, Games, Feelings

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• The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.

  Francie Larrieu Smith

  Motivational, Sports, Goal

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• If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

  Ilie Nastase

  Sports, Patience, Have Confidence

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• Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Motivational, Smile

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• If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

  Chuck Noll

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

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• Live as if you were living already for the second time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Coaching

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• The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  Darrell Royal, Robert Heard (1976). “Dance with who Brung Us: Quips and Quotes from Darrell Royal”

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• I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Fun

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