Sports Quotes - Page 14

• Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Happiness, Success, Volleyball

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• Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.

  Marcus O'Sullivan

  Running, Hate, Butterfly

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• Passion is pushing myself when there is no one else around-just me and the road.

  Ryan Shay

  Running, Passion, Pushing

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• Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Motivational, Running, Fear

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• The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Race, Self

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• Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Freedom, Mind

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Sep 05, 2013

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• The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.

  Dean Karnazes

  Inspirational, Running, Fire

  Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.155, Penguin

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• Today I will run for pure, absolute joy!

  Lopez Lomong

  Running, Joy, Track And Field

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• You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Funny, Golf, Woods

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• Winning means being unafraid to lose.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

  Fran Tarkenton, Tad Tuleja (1986). “How to motivate people: the team strategy for success”, Harpercollins

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• Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

  John Heisman

  Soccer, Football, Boys

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• When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Basketball, Balls, Hitting

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• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

  Oscar Robertson

  Success, Basketball, Learning

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• This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Winning, Player

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2011

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• All my life I've believed in myself. And I have never given up.

  Curtis Pride

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

  Landon Donovan

  Soccer, Football, Moving

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• In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions.

  Glenn Cunningham

  Running, Lying, Real

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• Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

  Noel Carroll

  Running, Independence, Philosopher

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• Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.

  Kara Goucher

  Motivational, Running, Work

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• Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.

  Suzy Favor Hamilton

  Love, Running, Years

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• Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

  Lorraine Moller

  Running, Spiritual, Meditation

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• The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Real, Live Life

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• For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Lines, Marathon

  Dean Karnazes (2008). “50/50: Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days -- and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance!”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

  Tony Burton

  Motivational, Dream, Perseverance

  "Rocky's Tony Burton Dead at 78: Sylvester Stallone Remembers His Onscreen Trainer With Sweet Instagram" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

  Tony Adams

  Soccer, Teamwork, Football

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