Sports Quotes - Page 22

• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Determination

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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  It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Football

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• Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

  Roger Federer

  Inspirational, Work, Sacrifice

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• Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

  Paul Tournier

  Positive, Confidence, Motivation

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• Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

  Bobby Unser

  Success, Opportunity, Fda

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• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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• Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Character, Winning

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 02, 2010

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• Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

  George Halas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

  Heywood Broun

  Inspirational, Baseball, Athlete

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

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• There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Commitment

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  The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivational, Athlete, Winning

  Mike Ditka, Don Pierson (1987). “Ditka: An Autobiography”

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  Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

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• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us.

  Richard J. Corman

  Success, Athlete, Unique

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• It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

  Floyd Patterson

  Men, Mma, African American

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• Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

  Bob Cousy

  Success, Athlete, Discipline

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  I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Arnold Palmer

  Perseverance, Determination, Athlete

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• When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

  Noureddine Morceli

  Motivational, Faith, Running

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• The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

  Jean-Claude Killy

  Leadership, Volleyball, Champion

  Jean Claude Killy, Michael Halstead (1978). “Situation Skiing”, Doubleday Books

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• A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word I when you're in a group makes things complicated.

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo

  Player, Squad, Groups

  "The Brazilians are coming... to Wales and England" by Brian Homewood, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2000.

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• No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.

  Jandy Nelson

  Leather Jackets, Guy, Motorcycle

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.101, Penguin

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• My first passion was running: I excelled at that starting till the end of the high school. I pretty much cover about 20 miles a night on stage. I basically rechanneled all the athleticism and adrenaline, and everything that's exciting about sports into music. That was my secret weapon, because in Ukrainian punk rock scene - where everything was very gloomy - being athletic was not cool. I didn't publicize anything about my sport past, but I rolled in onstage with a background nobody had, and I became instantly recognized as the wildest performer in the punk-rock scene.

  Eugene Hutz

  Running, School, Passion

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• When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

  Boris Becker

  Words You Speak, News, Way

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• I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.

  Allen Iverson

  Eye, Thinking, Play

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