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Sports Quotes
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Volume I
A Collection of the Greatest Sporting Quotes From the Most Successful People in the World!
This eBook is Provided Courtesy of www.SportseBooks.com
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General Information
Title: Free Sports Quotes – Volume I Author: David Horne, BSc (Sp. Med), MHExSc. First Published: 2004 Revised and Updated Digital Edition (eBook): 2011 Composed and published by: SportseBooks.com and with the assistance of www.ebookauthoracademy.com Website: www.sportsebooks.com Website: www.ebookauthoracademy.com
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The Best Way to Use This Book
SportseBooks.com has allowed printing of all pages in this book as our goal was to allow you to be able to print quotes and hand them out to your athletes, friends, fellow coaches or staff.
Read through the entire book and find the quotes that you find the best. Don’t try to read them all at once. You can read one quote every day, print a quote and place it on your fridge or take one to training with you. This is also a great resource for coaches who are inspired by the minds of our great sporting personalities and can generate motivation upon reading these inspirational quotes. Allow yourself to read the quote and to see the true meaning of what has been said and how you can use this to help your every day life. These quotes show how even the greatest athletes and coaches went through tough times and times of failure only to come out on top. You will be able to relate to many of these quotes. Simply enjoy this collection of carefully selected quotes that cover athletes, sport administrators, managers and coaches of all sports from around the globe. Save this ebook onto your computer so that you will have access to these quotes at the click of a button. You can also keep them on your laptop and take them on the road with you and print a quote whenever you desire!
Enjoy! And May One Day You Find Success in Your Sporting and Everyday Dreams!
David Horne
Founder: Founder: Founder: www.SportseBooks.com www.eBooksInternational.co www.GlobalTennisCoaching.com
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Words of Wisdom from the Worlds Greatest Sporting Legends
To be the best you need to learn from the best! And the best way to do that is to listen to what the most successful athletes, coaches and administrators say in their own words. You will be inspired and motivated after reading these quotes as your will see how all successful athletes have at times struggled in their endeavours to be the best at what they do. They get knocked down but they get back up, they suffer losses along the way but those losses only make them stronger, they know what they want to achieve in their sport, where they want to go, and always have a plan in how to get there! Throughout my entire career I have loved reading quotes from successful people and now I have collected some of the best quotes of all time. Many of these quotes are inspiring, real and also give you an insight into how successful people think. Choose your favourite quotes and read them often. Have you ever found yourself giving a speech to your athletes and you just put together some words that have a sincere impact and meaning to your players? Well it is these inspirational and motivating moments that can help your players get in the right frame of mind to perform their best. Don’t try to read all of the quotes at once, instead read several quotes every day and think about what is being said and how it can be applied to your playing or coaching experiences. I love quotes and after reading this collection of quotes I hope that you will too!
David Horne
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I am a Winner I Just Didn’t Win Today
Greg Norman
Golf Champion
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It’s Not Where You Start, But Where You Finish!
April Heinrichs
USA Soccer Coach
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People Don’t Win Because They’re Physically Stronger.
It’s Because They’re Stronger Between the Ears.
Alex Shaffer
Alpine skier
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“A Goal is Nothing More Than a Dream With a Deadline.”
Joe L. Griffith
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“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, You’re probably right.” Henry Ford
Ford Motor Vehicles
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You work your whole life to try To be the best you can, Even if it’s for only one day or one week.
Lindsay Davenport
Former World Number One Tennis Player
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“A goal is nothing more than a dream with a deadline.” Joe L. Griffith
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“I never ran 1000 miles.
I could never have done that.
I ran one mile 1000 times.”
Stu Mittleman
Ultra - Distance Runner
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“Confidence is Preparation in Action”
Ron Howard
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I train harder than anyone else in the world. Last year I was supposed to take a month off and I took three days off because I was afraid somebody out there was training harder. That’s the feeling I go though every day – Am I not doing what somebody else is doing? Is someone out there training harder than I am? I can’t live with myself if someone is.
Marion Jones
World Champion Sprinter
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If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they’ve won.
Mia Hamm
World Cup Soccer Champion
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You have to compete every day of your life, in everything. You compete if you’re sick, if you’re injured, if you don’t feel like playing. It doesn’t matter.
Lloyd Carr
University of Michigan Football Coach
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Some people think failure is the end of the world. Failure should be a challenge. If you don’t get knocked on your ass ten or fifteen times in your life, you’ll never reach your level of excellence.
Nick Bolletieri
Famous Tennis Coach
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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vincent Lombardi
NFL Football Coach
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its 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
Baseball Great
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog!
Archie Griffen
Heisman Trophy Winner
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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Greg LeMond
Champion Cyclist (Tour de France)
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You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
Joe Paterno
College Football Coach
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The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary!
Vidal Sassoon
Businessman
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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
Olympic Gold Medallist
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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
Tri - Athlete - Ironman
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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
NBA Basketball Coach
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The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Dennis Waitley
Public Speaker
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“Our behaviour as an athlete is often determined by our previous experiences and how we dealt with those experiences. It is these experiences from past performances that can often shape what will happen in the future.
It is for this reason that you learn and move on to be more mentally stronger as both an athlete and as a human!”
David Horne
Tennis Player
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The game isn't over till it's over
Yogi Berra
Baseball Player
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I'll always be Number 1 to myself!
Moses Malone
Basketball Player
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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
Famous Football Coach
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Failure is only permanent if you allow it to be. Your future is not measured by your past. Keep hoping. Keep believing.
Tracey Stewart
Wife of Golfer Payne Stewart
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You have to have the mentality of executing your game when you don’t feel like there’s a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come together.
Andre Agassi
Tennis Champion
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To be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel Cervantes
Spanish Novelist
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You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno
College Football Coach
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If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
Ronnie Lott
Professional NFL Player
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Ask not what your team mates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your team mates.
Magic Johnson
NBA Star
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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react.
If you’re in control, they’re in control.
Tom Landry
Former NFL Coach
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Football doesn’t build character, It reveals character!
Marv Levy
Former NFL Coach
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If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
Herschel Walker
NFL Football Player
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Finally, is Better Than Never!
David Horne
Tennis Player and Coach
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Sometimes you’re the pigeon And Sometimes you’re the statue.
Bernie Bickerstaff
Former NBA Coach
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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
NFL Football Player
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Winning is great, but it’s the long road to get there, that makes it worthwhile.
Stan Smith
Former Tennis Professional
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The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
Steve Garvey
Baseball
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The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
John Madden
NFL Commentator
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
Former NFL Coach
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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
Abe Lemmons
Former Basketball Coach Oklahoma State University
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Most games are lost, not won!
Casey Stengel
Base Hall of Fame
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It's not whether you win or lose – But whether I win or lose!
Sandy Lyle
Golfer
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds!
Jesse Owens
Olympic Sprinting Gold Medalist
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I figure practice puts your Brains in your muscles.
Sam Snead
Golfer
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An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Emil Zatopek
Runner
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If winning isn't everything, Why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
Famous NFL Coach
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“Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.”
Mia Hamm
USA Soccer Star
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“My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.”
Tiger Woods
Golf Champion
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If you don't do what’s best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
Julius Erving
Basketball Legend
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