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Athletics Quotes

"A man cannot think deeply and exert his utmost
muscular force"
Charles
Darwin
"There
is a time to run and there is a time to rest.
It is
the true test of the athlete to get them both right"
Noel
Carroll
"You
know you`ve got to exercise your brain just like
your
muscles"
Will
Rogers
"The
secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to
worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the
present moment wisely and earnestly"
Buddha
When one
door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for
us.
Bell,
Alexander Graham
If you cannot win, make the one ahead
of you break the record.
Anonymous
Winners make it happen,
losers let it happen
Unknown
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your
enthusiasm.
Churchill, Winston
Through perseverance many people win success out of what
seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the
dog.
Mark Twain
Attitude: A small thing that has a big effect
Anonymous
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will
never pay attention to their limitations again. - James R. Cook.
I don't wait for
moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has
to get down to work.
Buck, Pearl
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to
the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of
your weaknesses . . . on your powers, instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyers
All things are difficult before they are easy
John Morley
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Bruce Lee
Do not dwell
in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the
present moment.
Buddha
When one door
closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open
for us.
Bell,
Alexander Graham
"There is
Nothing Stronger Than The Heart Of A Volunteer"
Unknown
Success is the
ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Churchill,
Winston
"Winners make goals, losers make excuses"
unknown
"I
don`t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that.
your
mind must know it has to get down to work"
buck,
pearl.
"one
important key to success is self confidence.
an
important key to self confidence is preparation"
arthur
ashe
"the
reason why worry kills more people than work
is that
more people worry than work"
frost,
robert
"keep
in mind that success nor failure is never final"
Roger
Babson
"There is
only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything"
Vince
Lombardi
"Sweat plus
sacrifice equals success"
Charles
Finlay
"Only those
who do nothing make no mistakes"
Unknown
"The only
place where success comes before work is in the dictionary"
Unknown
"Success is
never final and failure never fatal. It`s courage that counts"
George Tilton
"Keep
spiritually sound and be persistent. Persistence is the key.
Just never
stop believing in your dream"
Aquila, Deborah
"The minute
you start talking about what your`e going to do
if you lose,
you have lost!!!"
George Shultz
"My body
is exercising and my mind is relaxing.
I think
these are the essentials of the sport"
Delano Meriwether
"Simply
finishing is the first level of winning.
For me, a
slow race is better than an incomplete one"
Joe Henderson
"Overtraining is the biggest medical problem incurred by
athletes
who lack the experience or discipline to cope
with
their own enthusiasm"
Marty Liquori
"The
harder you work, the harder it is to surrender"
Vince Lombardi
"I say to
you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of
the moment, I still have a dream"
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Doubt
whom you will, but never yourself"
American Proverb
"In the
middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
Albert Einstein
"Nothing
is impossible to a willing heart"
John Heywood
"There
are defeats more triumphant than victories"
Michel Montaigne
"A
willing mind makes a light foot"
Thomas Fuller
"He who
stops being better stops being good"
Oliver
Cromwell
"A goal is
a dream that has an ending"
Duke
Wellington
"The
greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure"
Sven Goran
Erikson
"The man
who has no imagination has no wings"
Muhammand
Ali
"There is
no such thing as failure, only failure to try and try again"
Arnold
Palmer
Nobody can make you
feel inferior without your consent
Training and rest
equals improvement
A picture is worth
a thousand words
I hear, I forgot
I see, I remember
I do, I understand
(Ancient chineese
Proverb)
Success seems to
be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes,
but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton
"Faith can
move mountains, doubt can create them"
"We must
not, in trying to think about how we can make a
big
difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make"
"No person
can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy
in the
success of those under him"
W.A. Nance
"A man
judges himself by what he feels he is capable of achieving. Others judge him
by what he has achieved"
Unknown
"Don`t
be afraid to fail. Don`t waste energy trying to cover up failure.
Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It`s ok.
If you`re not failing, you`re not growing."
H. Stanley Judd
"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he
who loses courage loses all."
Cervantes
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
Robert Schuller
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear"
Mark Twain
"You can do anything in this world if you`re prepared to take the
consequences."
W. Somerset
Maughan
"Progress always involves risk; you can`t steal second base and keep your
foot on first"
Frederick Wilcox
"Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer"
Norwegian Proverb
"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right
and doing a thing exactly right."
Edward Simmons
"The happiness in your life is in direct proportion to the character of your
thoughts"
Unknown
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery"
James Joyce
"He who laughs, lasts"
Robert Fulghum
"If you lose
hope, you lose everything"
"Today is
the tomorrow you worried about yesterday - all is well!!"
"Laughter
lightens the cloudiest day"
"You`ll
never know unless you try"
"A person
always doing his or her best become a natural leader, just by example"
Joe DiMaggio
"Giving of
oneself is another winning value... It`s important to develop the
ability of stepping into another person`s shoes. I love being able to
walk through life with the thought that 'I make a difference'."
Christel
DeHaan
"He who is
not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life"
Mohammad Ali
"Life is
either a daring adventure or nothing"
Helen Keller
"Failure is the opportunity
to begin again more intelligently"
Henry Ford
"Nothing in life is to be
feared. It is only to be understood"
Marie Curie
"It looks impossible until
you do it, and then you find it possible"
Evelyn Underhill
"Success
is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, but
the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed"
"If we define a winner as
someone who tries their hardest to do their best, then we can have a lot
more winners"
Tom McNab
"If you can dream it, you can
do it"
Walt Disney
"The greatest mistake a man
can make is to be afraid of making one"
Elbert Hubbard
"The best way to predict the
future is to create it"
Peter Drucker
"You may be disappointed if
you fail, but you are doomed if you don`t try"
"If you want to earn respect,
be the first to show it"
"If you think you can - you
can"
"Never was good work done
without much trouble"
"Laughter lightens the
cloudiest day"
"Success is a journey, not a
destination"
"Success comes in cans not
can`ts"
"If you lose hope, you lose
everything"
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"
"Attitude is just as important as ability to achieve success"
"One must eat to live, and not live to eat"
Moliere
"The daily habits of people have a great deal more to do with what makes
them sick and when they die than all the influences of medicine"
Lester Breslow MD
"Don`t play sports to get in shape, get in shape to play sports!!!"
"Fitness can neither be bought nor bestowed. Like honour it must be earned"
"Many of us spend half our time
wishing for things we could have if we did`nt spend half our time
wishing"
Alexander Wollcott
"Nothing in the world can take the
place of persistence"
Calvin Coolidge
"You will never find time for
anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
"Spirit... has fifty times the
strength and staying power of brawn and muscle"
"Any idiot can train himself into the
ground, the trick is to work in training to get gradually
stronger"
Keith Brantly
"The introduction of resistance in the
form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored"
Percy Cerutty
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