Quotes About Determination Sports

#1. A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

Carol Mann

#2. Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character.

John Wooden

#3. I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

Alexander Girard

#4. Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.

Kevin Daniels

#5. I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.

Stephanie Gilmore

#6. why are we so monumentally slow?

Naomi Shihab Nye

#7. I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was ... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.

Alan Arkin

#8. Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

Marie Bashkirtseff

#9. Try and maybe write a couple of articles for your local paper. Perhaps you need to go to college to learn some things that might help you on the way. If you've got enthusiasm, determination and you love your sport - why shouldn't you be doing my job?

Jill Douglas

#10. Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.

Nicola Sturgeon

#11. Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Matt Biondi

#12. You cannot have that attitude of where I am going to tuck my tail between my legs and go home. You have to keep going back for more. That's why cycling is a very competitive sport. You have to have determination and drive to train hard and put forth a good effort.

Robin Farina

#13. If one could be enraged by the loss of a favorite sports team, shouldn't his anger rise at the entrenchment of a scheme whereby no innocent person was safe, where self-determination was a crime punished by the vagaries of an opaque & impervious justice system?

Ausma Zehanat Khan

#14. Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Dan Gable

#15. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Vince Lombardi

#16. It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

Steve Lopez

#17. He was infamous, even at her school. You wanted something to get you through your exams, he had it. You wanted a fake license, he could get it. You wanted something to hurt you, he was it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. If it were easy it would not be any fun.

T Jay Taylor

#19. I know that I'm the one hurting you now, and I don't know how to fix it, and it's killing me. Because I love you, Leah,

Priscilla Glenn

#20. My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.

Ben Mitchell

#21. The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

Biz Stone

#22. If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

Jesse Jackson

#23. Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Ted Williams

#24. To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

Picabo Street

#25. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.

Sharon Robinson

#26. I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and know that South African music was still alive.

Letta Mbulu

#27. Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.

Jim Rohn