Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 5

• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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• What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Love Is

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• Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Success, Softball

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• Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

  Babe Ruth

  Hero, Athlete, Legends

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• You can always become better.

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  Interview with Rob Johnston, www.augusta.com. April 6, 2011.

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• Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.

  Joe Kapp

  Success, Sports, Smell

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• Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Sports, Accomplishment

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• Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Doctors, Track

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• Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational Sports, Excellence, Money And Fame

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  Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

  Doris Brown Heritage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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  Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Inspirational, Success, Peace

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• I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Player

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• The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Sports, Fun, Athlete

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• Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

  Jackie Robinson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

  Bobby Knight

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

  Timothy Gallwey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

  Dick Vermeil

  Inspirational, Sports, Hurt

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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  The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

  Mike Ditka, Don Pierson (1987). “Ditka: An Autobiography”

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• There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional. This is sheer intensity.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Emotional

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• Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

  Alistair Cooke

  Sports, Believe, People

  Alistair Cooke (2013). “Golf: The Marvelous Mania”, p.48, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I'll let the racket do the talking.

  John McEnroe

  Funny, Sports, Volleyball

  The Times (London), June 26, 1984.

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• People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Sports, Powerful

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.

  Nick Saban

  Sports, Focus, Progress

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