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Sports Quotes
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
~ Lou Brock
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
~ Satchel Paige
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
~ Bill Shoemaker
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
~ Wayne Gretzky
The way a team plays as a whole determines it's success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
~ Babe Ruth
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
~ Pat Riley
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
~ William A. Ward
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
~ Charlie Finley
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
~ A. J. Kitt
There's no substitute for guts.
~ Paul Bear Bryant
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
~ Lou Holtz
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
~ Hank Aaron
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
~ Joe Paterno
It's a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
~ Muhammad Ali
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
~ Vince Lombardi
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
~ Michael Jordan
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
~ John Wooden
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
~ Herschel Walker
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
~ George Shultz
Ask not what our teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
~ Magic Johnson
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
~ Tommy Lasorda
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
~ Darrel Royal
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.
~ Robert Strauss
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
~ Steve Young
I know that I'm never as good or as bad as any single performance. I've never listened to my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
~ Charles Barkley
What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
~ Terry Bradshaw
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
~ Joe Paterno
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
~ Jean-Claude Killy
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
~ Chuck Noll
When you're playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
~ Duffy Daugherty
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
~ Joe Paterno
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
~ Vince Lombardi
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.
~ Carl Lewis
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There is no such thing as life in-between.
~ Pat Riley
The game isn't over 'till it's over.
~ Yogi Berra
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
~ Bob Richards
I'll always be number 1 to myself.
~ Moses Malone
You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
~ Joe Namath
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
~ Julius Erving
If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race, it's up to you.
~ Dave Scott
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
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
I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.
~ Jean-Claude Killy
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
~ Shannon Miller
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
~ Bruce Jenner
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but
man's failures.
~ Earl Warren
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
~ Vince Lombardi
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
~ Pete Rose
One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
~ Abe Lemmons
The breakfast of champions is not ceral, it's the opposition.
~ Nick Seitz
The more I practice, the luckier I get.
~ Jerry Barber
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
~ George Brett
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
~ Vince Lombardi
A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating.
~ Nik Posa
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