Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 40

• How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?

  Jason Bishop

  Motivational, Sports, Quitting

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• The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.

  Jack Johnson

  Sports, Appreciation, Men

  Jack Johnson (1969). “Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography”

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• Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Sports, Fun, Reality

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• You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Emotional, Play

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• I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2011

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• There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Analysis, Syndromes

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• For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Sports, Laughter

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 57 (1813)

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• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Leadership, Sports, Power

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• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Success, Attitude

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Sports, Health, Athlete

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• Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Football

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• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, School, College

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• Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Block, Games

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Volleyball

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.217, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Sports, Nfl

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.38, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Success demands singleness of purpose.

  Vince Lombardi

  Life, Inspiring, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• In war there is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Memorial Day, Inspirational Sports, Military

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

  John Madden

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• Business is a combination of war and sport.

  Andre Maurois

  Sports, Business, War

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• Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

  Al McGuire

  Leadership, Basketball, Sports

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• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sports, Golf, Gambling

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  There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sports, Sarcastic

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