Sports Psychology Quotes - Page 2

• Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

  Bill James

  Sports, League, Psychology

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• It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out.

  Matt Keough

  Sports, Games, Psychology

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• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

  John Madden

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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  Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Loyalty, Running

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• I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

  Michelle Wie

  Sports, Crazy, Psychology

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• Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Baseball, Winning

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• I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.

  Ray Malavasi

  Sports, Psychology, Tape

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• Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.

  Danny White

  Sports, Creating, Discipline

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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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• Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

  Larry Robinson

  Sports, Psychology, Quality

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• This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.

  Al Arbour

  Sports, Psychology, Firsts

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• Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.

  Danny Murtaugh

  Sports, Running, Team

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• Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink.

  Tom Curle

  Sports, Psychology, Excuse

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• Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.

  Harry Sinden

  Sports, Two, Goal

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• It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long.

  Hugh Campbell

  Sports, Thinking, Long

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• I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Nice, Nfl

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• He has the players too happy.

  Red Auerbach

  Sports, Player, Psychology

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• He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'

  Jim Colletto

  Sports, Dad, Mean

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• There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.

  Ken Loeffler

  Sports, Education, Two

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• Playing for Billy Martin is like being married to him. Right now, we're all sleeping on the couch.

  Matt Keough

  Sports, Sleep, Psychology

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• All I know is I have a job here as long as I win.

  Toe Blake

  Sports, Jobs, Winning

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• Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games.

  Emile Francis

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• Blame is the cowards way out.

  Elvin Hayes

  Sports, Psychology, Coward

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