Sports Quotes - Page 10

• No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.

  Andre Agassi

  Athlete, Player, Squares

  Andre Agassi (2015). “The Whirl”, p.11, Vintage

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• We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

  Al Attles

  Defense, Four, Way

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• When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

  Ross Perot

  Motivational, Hate, Team

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• They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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  I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

  Mia Hamm

  Volleyball, Cheerleading, Business

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• It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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  No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

  Tiger Woods

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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• Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.

  Lance Armstrong

  Strong, Pain, Cycling

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• It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

  Sandy Lyle

  Funny Inspirational, Golf, Hockey

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Athlete, Men

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

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  Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

  Jerry Rice

  Motivational, Success, Football

  "Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.com.

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• Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Wisdom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Esquire, Nov. 1962

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• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Determination, Adversity

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball.

  Marv Dunphy

  Inspirational, Funny, Teamwork

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• The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.

  Joan Benoit

  Motivational, Relationship, Running

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• You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

  Chris McCormack

  Soccer, Baseball, Fun

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• Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of any other institution. This is as it should be, for not two universities are closer together in every way than Michigan State and Michigan.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Team, Two, Together

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• I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.

  Marcelo Garcia

  Inspirational, Thinking, Trying

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• The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

  Greg Maddux

  Confidence, Baseball, Memories

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• Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

  Virender Sehwag

  Role Models, Bats, Today

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• Boxing is a science. You don't just walk into a gym and start punching. Fighters are born with differences in physical ability, but you also see a big difference in their skills. That's the trainers influence at work.

  Eddie Futch

  Science, Skills, Differences

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• A lot of people say they love running because of how they feel afterward. Not me. Well, I love that, too, but it's also so much fun while I'm out there.

  Dick Beardsley

  Running, Fun, People

  Dick Beardsley, Maureen Anderson (2004). “Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race”, p.46, U of Minnesota Press

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• When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!

  Joan Benoit

  Funny, Running, Flower

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• If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Block, Player, Games

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