Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 9

• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

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• No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Feb 15, 2011

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• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899 See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 18

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• Most ball games are lost, not won.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Games, Lost Friendship

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

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• If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

  Phil Jackson

  Love, Inspirational, Basketball

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

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• Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Sports, Football

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Football, Winning

  Vince Lombardi (2002). “The Essential Vince Lombardi: Words & Wisdom to Motivate, Inspire, and Win”, p.2, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

  Paul Brown

  Sports, Football, Team

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• On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Sports, Play

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• One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Sports, Loss

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• We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• Win or lose, do it fairly.

  Knute Rockne

  Winning, Nfl, Justice

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• A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Responsibility, Player

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  The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Teamwork, Play

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• There is no need for me continuing unless I'm able to improve.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Sports, Nfl

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• Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

  Mickey Mantle

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.90, U of Nebraska Press

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• The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Block, Believe

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• Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

  Chuck Noll

  Athlete, Frustration, Winning

  "Chuck Noll, Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers coach, dies at 82", www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2014.

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• I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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