Wrestling Quotes - Page 7

• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Art, Philosophical

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• To be the man, you gotta beat the man!

  Ric Flair

  Motivational, Men, Wwe

  FaceBook post by Ric Flair, The Nature Boy from Oct 22, 2016

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• A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

  Dan Gable

  Judging, Athletic, Teammate

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.25, Human Kinetics

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• To win you must have talent and desire ­ but desire is first.

  Sam Snead

  Winning, Desire, Firsts

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• Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Preparation, Succeed

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

  John Smith

  Attitude, Mind

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• There were times when deep down inside I wanted to win so badly I could actually will it to happen. I think most of my career has been based on desire.

  Chris Evert

  Winning, Thinking, Careers

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• It is not work that kills, but "worry."

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Worry, African Proverbs

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• Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Opportunity, Growth, Cybernetics

  "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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• Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Fuel, Fear Of Failure, Edges

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• All men like to think that they can do it alone, but a real man knows that there no substitute for support , encouragement or a pit crew.

  Tim Allen

  Encouragement, Real, Thinking

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• If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.

  Michael Jordan

  Practice, People, Relax

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

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• Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.

  Roger Staubach

  Achievement, Preparation, Spectacular

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• Chance favors those who are prepared.

  Louis Pasteur

  Favors, Chance, Prepared

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• The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

  John C. Maxwell

  Lying, Successful, People

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• People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, Acting, Together

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• My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Fiona Wood

  Education, Father, Learning

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• Now, Bad Ass, you run your mouth about Summerslam. Well, here's the situation. The Rock says this, if the Rock hits you he'll kill you. If he misses, the wind behind the punch will give you pneumonia and you'll die anyway, so the choice is yours, jabroni.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Running, Bad Ass, Pneumonia

  "Line-O-Rama: The Rock Says" by Matt Fowler, www.ign.com. July 02, 2009.

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• The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

  Dennis Hastert

  Sports, Education, Athlete

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• The man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspiration, Winning, Men

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• I always practice as I intend to play.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Practice, Play

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• I probably have a different mental approach to swimming than most people. I actually enjoy training.

  Dawn Fraser

  Swimming, People, Training

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