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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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also attributed to Vince Lombardi
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I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
-Arthur Ashe
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I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!
-Sasha Azevedo
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How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do 'important' work! Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls.
-Max Beerbohm
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Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart.
-Chuck D, from song by Public Enemy "He Got Game"
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Athletes need 'freedom of excess'. That is why we gave them this motto … a motto for people who dare to try to break records.
This phrase, "Citius, Altius, Fortius" is the Olympic Motto.
-Pierre de Coubertin
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"In 1883 while I was working at the London Hospital I chanced to turn in to one of D. L. Moody’s great tent meetings in the slums of East London. I was amazed to see on the platform with him several men whose athletic prowess was world-famous. That was a credential to me that it was worth stopping to listen to what was going to be said. I still believe athletic success is an invaluable asset to a preacher. Christ, I am sure, wants football, baseball, and track-team men in an age when theological expositions, however deep and learned, when orthodoxy, conventionality, or even correct vestments and ritual, have so little attraction for the young men who will be leaders tomorrow."
-Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
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The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts:
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.
-Piet Hein
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"If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!"
Phil Hellmuth, PokerListings.com
-Phil Hellmuth
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
-George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant, "The Sporting Spirit", 1950
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There is no greater honor than the one received by athletes the moment they see the raised flag of their country at the highest level, and when they hear their national anthem inundating every corner of the stadium and reaching the ends of the earth.
From speech in an Olympic Education event, 4 November 2000.
-Voula Patoulidou
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
-General George Patton
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The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
-George Shultz
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Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
-William Arthur Ward
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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
-George Will, 1994
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