Competition quotes
38 quotes. Authors include Arnold Palmer, Babe Ruth, Barry Switzer, Billie Jean King, Bob Feller, Bob Knight, Bobby Unser, Carl Lewis, Casey Stengel, Dan Gable, Earl Monroe, Eric Liddell, Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron, Henry David Thoreau, Heywood Broun, Ian Botham, Jim Bouton, Joe Adcock, John Madden, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Knute Rockne, Mia Hamm, Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, Mike Singletary (basketball), P. G. Wodehouse, Reggie Jackson (basketball, born 1990), Robert Griffin III, Rogers Hornsby.
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“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”
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“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
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“Pitching is the art of instilling fear.”
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“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.”
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“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.”
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“The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.”
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“Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”
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“People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”
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“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
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“Fans don't boo nobodies.”
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“Life is about timing.”
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“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”
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“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
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“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”
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“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”
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“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
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“The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.”
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“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.”
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“Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.”
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“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”
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“Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.”
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“To find a man's true character, play golf with him.”
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“You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”
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“Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.”
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“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”
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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.”
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“Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.”
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“You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.”
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“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
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“You can't win unless you learn how to lose.”
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“Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.”
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“To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.”
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“I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.”
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“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
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“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.”
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“God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.”
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“Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.”