Sports Psychology Quotes - Page 4

• Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

  Plato

  Sports, Commitment, Land

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• I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Hard Work, Commitment

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• A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Evil, Managers

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• A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.

  Bill Robinson

  Teaching, Perfect, Guy

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• They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.

  LaVell Edwards

  Fire, Tickets, My Family

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• What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.

  George Halas

  Basketball, Football, Commitment

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• Oosthuizen's red spot is a classic example of what's known in sports psychology as a process goal-a technique by which the athlete is required to focus on something, however minor, to prevent them from thinking about other things: in Oosthuizen's case, all the ways he could possibly screw up the shot.

  Kevin Dutton

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

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• My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Sports, Games, Feelings

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• The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

  Merlin Olsen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

  Kevin Keegan

  Sports, Gun, Bullets

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• I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

  Don Shula

  Motivational, Sports, Nfl

  Don Shula (1995). “Everyone's a Coach: You Can Inspire Anyone to be a Winner”, Zondervan

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• We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.

  Fred Shero

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pain

  "Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now". Book by Jim Jackson, January 5, 2005.

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• Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Expectations, Temptation, Able

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.679, 谷月社

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• Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Choices, Coaching

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• A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Winning, Careers

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• Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

  Tom Landry

  Basketball, Men, Coaching

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• Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Blessed

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• Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.

  Clair Bee

  Team, Teaching, Character

  Clair Bee, Ken Norton (1959). “The science of coaching”

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• Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

  Fred Shero

  Hockey, Nhl, Puck

  "Hockey Shorts" by Glenn Liebman, September 1, 1996.

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• Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

  Bill Peterson

  Stupid, Men, Thinking

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• Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Two

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• You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

  Dan Birdwell

  Motivational, Soccer, Football

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• You guys line up alphabetically by height.

  Bill Peterson

  Sports, Football, Guy

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• You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.

  Bill Peterson

  Funny, Circles, Guy

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• But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Football, Real

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