Sports Psychology Quotes

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  Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

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• Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Sports, Spiritual

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• Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

  Mike Singletary

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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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 only reward in this game is winning. It's no fun to practice; it's no fun to play and lose.

  Gerry DiNardo

  Sports, Fun, Winning

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• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  Walter Alston

  Sports, Baseball, Psychology

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  The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Sex, Player

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• If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.

  Joey Galloway

  Sports, Yelling, Psychology

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• You play to win the game.

  Herman Edwards

  Sports, Winning, Nfl Players

  News conference, Hempstead, N.Y., 30 Oct. 2002.

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• Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

  Jim Valvano

  Sports, Psychology, Answers

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• Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

  Tommy Lasorda

  Sports, Mistake, Psychology

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• The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Games

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

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• A good garden may have some weeds.

  Thomas Fuller

  Motivational, Weed, Garden

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• You always catch the wrong players.

  Abe Lemons

  Sports, Player, Psychology

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• Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

  Ogden Nash

  Sports, Clever, Psychology

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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  Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

  Bob Lemon

  Friendship, Sports, Baseball

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• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  Abe Lemons

  Motivational Sports, School, Doctors

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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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• The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

  John Madden

  Sports, Player, Nfl

  John Madden, Dave Anderson (1985). “Hey, wait a minute, I wrote a book”, Random House Inc

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• The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

  Don Shula

  Wrestling, Men, Inferiority

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  Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• The smaller the detail the greater the value.

  Doug Johnson

  Sports, Psychology, Details

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• True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sports, Psychology, Should

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• Work hard to make things easier.

  Pete Carril

  Sports, Hard Work, Psychology

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