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Motivational Sports Quotes by John Wooden
- A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.
- It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
- Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them-…
- It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
- You've never heard of them- and you never will .
- Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable…
- Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
- It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
- You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
- It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
- Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
- Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
- Never mistake activity for achievement.
- Ability is a poor man's wealth.
- Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
- Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
More Motivational Sports Quotes
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
- The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. — Arthur Ashe
- There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' — Arthur Ashe
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. — Francis Bacon
- I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. — James A. Baldwin
- Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. — Honore de Balzac
- My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the… — David Beckham
- The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. — Irving Berlin
- If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer. — Yogi Berra
- Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting. — Yogi Berra