Sports Quotes

• The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

  Ken Doherty

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.

  Steve Sabol

  Art, Player, Games

  "The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

  Ronnie Lott

  Graduation, Football, Perseverance

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  Sandy Koufax

  Baseball, Athlete, Player

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• Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Character, Opportunity, Player

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• You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all.

  The Ultimate Warrior

  Motivational, Wrestling, Greatness

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2014

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• If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.

  Mat Hoffman

  Life, Success, Pain

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• When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Compassion, Hunting

  1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.

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• Channel your energy. Focus.

  Carl Lewis

  Running, Focus, Energy

  Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

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• The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Sports is like a war without the killing.

  Ted Turner

  War, Killing

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

  Janet Guthrie

  Racing, Matter, Spirit

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• Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

  Frank Robinson

  Baseball, Horseshoes, Grenade

  Quoted in Time, 31 July 1973. Usually attributed to Robinson, but slightly earlier evidence is found in the Guthrian (Guthrie County, Iowa), 26 Jan. 1970, which printed "Close only counts in horse shoes and grenades."

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• Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork

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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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  Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Congratulations, Procrastination

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• When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

  Paul Brown

  Motivational, Running, Football

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  Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

  Jealousy, War, Play

  "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)

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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

  John Madden

  Success, Teamwork, Athlete

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• Fans don't boo nobodies.

  Reggie Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  Walt Whitman

  Baseball, Games, Durham

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