Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 35

• The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Humor

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• If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Volleyball

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2011

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• I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Team

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• The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

  Thomas Hearns

  Sports, Loss, Winning

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• Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

  Andre Agassi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

  Shaun White

  Sports, Fun, Thinking

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• The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Retirement, Boxing

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• His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

  Joe Frazier

  Sports, Winning, Hands

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• The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Greatness, Boxing

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• In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Mean, Inspirational Soccer

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• Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

  George Mikes

  Sports, Thinking, Cricket Match

  1946 How to be an Alien.

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• When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...

  Jose Mourinho

  Motivational, Soccer, Games

  "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

  John Henry Newman

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Men

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• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

  Jealousy, Sports, War

  "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)

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• Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Friendship, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

  Camille Paglia

  Sports, Art, Nature

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

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• The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

  Arnold Palmer

  Motivational, Sports, Discovery

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Apr 09, 2017

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• Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

  Fred Perry

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sports

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  If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, People, Champion

  "Michael Phelps: 'I consider myself normal'" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2012.

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• Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Swimming, Compliments You

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  A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humorous, Boxing

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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Teamwork, Volleyball

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  Pat Riley

  Leadership, Basketball, Congratulations

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• There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Profound

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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