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“Still loving the sport; still working on the focus.”

“I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.”

Book:Works

Source: Works

“I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.”

“It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.”

Ifs Men Wells Important Play Sports Companion

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.”

Dream Sports Leadership Four Confidence Curiosity Consistency Dreams Come True Follow Your Dreams Chase Your Dreams Dreams Do Come True Living The Dream Making Dreams Come True

Author:Walt Disney

“One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.”

Sports Seeing One Thing Fans Keys Bottom Tickets Cubs

Author:Joe Garagiola

“Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.”

War Sports Class Burden Pursuit Resistance Gentleman Enterprise Heroic Passive Ruling Nonconformity Passive Resistance

Author:Kenneth Kaunda

“The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.”

Way Feels Firsts Said Stars Sports Saws First Time Woods Tigers Superstar

Author:Gary Player

“I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive.”

Source: A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey

“You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.”

Play Feelings Earth Sports Fire Alive Sky Dog Wind Yoga Eternity Infinity Bhakti Yoga Scotty Work Play

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.”

Sports Practice Ego Bases Mma Cages

Author:Carlos Condit

“I recognize that losing is a part of growth in this sport and it's a positive thing in the long run.”

Long Running Sports Growth Losing Mma Long Runs Positive Things

Author:Rory MacDonald

“I like to test myself and see where I am and how I am against other people in this sport. I think that's the real draw for me.”

People Thinking Real Sports Draws Tests Mma

Author:Barb Honchak

“Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out.”

Trying Hard Sports Mma Motivated Stay Motivated

Author:Nate Diaz

“In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.”

Thinking Heart Sports Skills Technique This Life Mma Digging

Author:Clay Guida

“I love this sport and I absolutely love the support you guys give me; and I will continue to do it until I can't.”

Giving I Can Guy Sports Support Give Me Mma Support You

Author:Dan Henderson

“Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.”

Ifs Fighting Sports Humble African American Boxing Martial Arts Mma Boxers Humbleness

Author:Mike Tyson

“I take it so seriously as far as meditation, notes, visualization, preparation, everything. I take it a lot more serious than a lot of people that play this sport. I'm obsessed with the game that I play.”

People Play Games Sports Meditation Serious Notes Preparation Obsessed Mma Visualization

Author:Jon Jones

“The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!”

Sports Secret Mma Nails Hammers Hang In There

Author:Renzo Gracie

“In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind.”

Mind Order Sports Evolution Mma Rapids Open Mind Keep An Open Mind

Author:Forrest Griffin

“The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.”

Ifs Past Sports Evolution Mma Slow Down

Author:Chuck Liddell

“We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.”

Believe Happens Success Order Sports Pride Things Happen Winner Believe In Yourself Believe In You Make Things Happen Personal Pride

Author:Alan Cohen

“The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices.”

Hard Success Sports Sacrifice Hard Work Hard Work Success Price Of Success

Author:Edward Bok

“It's hard to go out and practice every single day, and you get really tired. But you have to believe in yourself.”

Believe Hard Success Sports Practice Tired Believe In Yourself Believe In You Get Real

Author:Summer Sanders

“There are times when you're tired and times when you don't believe in yourself. That's when you have to stick it out and draw on the confidence that you have deep down beneath all the doubts and worries.”

Believe Success Sports Worry Doubt Draws Tired Sticks Don't Believe Believe In Yourself Believe In You Deep Down

Author:Jim Abbott

“True champions are team players.”

Success Sports Player Team Champion Team Player True Champion

Author:Alan Cohen

“Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.”

Matter Success Sports Careers Journey Modest Athletic Lofty

Author:Dan Millman

“What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.”

Needs Hard Success Sports Goal Hard Work Practicals Willingness Realistic Realistic Goals Lasting Change

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.”

Sports Goal Achieve Discipline I've Learned Mma Things I've Learned Achieving Goals

Author:Desmond Green

“If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.”

Ifs Sports Advice Athlete Mma Best Advice Professional Athlete

Author:Dominick Cruz

“Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.”

Want Giving Jobs Sports Being The Best Mma

Author:Nick Newell

“If you stay consistent to the sport you will eventually get good, but you have to just want it more to be the best.”

Ifs Want Sports Being The Best Consistent Mma

Author:Devon Alexander

“Think street, train sport.”

Thinking Sports Streets Train Mma

Author:Conor McGregor

“Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.”

“Sports are a metaphor for life.”

Sports Metaphor Mma

Author:Ronda Rousey

“The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.”

Play Sports Pieces Winter Chess Snow Ice Charter Federation

Author:Peter Sagal

“I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we have no inclination to ban.”

People Thinking Sports Dangerous Danger Activity Inclination Bans Reacting

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Bull riding is probably the most dangerous sport in the world in terms of head injuries.”

World Sports Term Dangerous Injury Riding Bulls Head Injuries Dangerous Sports

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.”

Thinking Doe Facts Seems Fighting Winning Sports Athlete Ugly Harm Bother Opponents Damage

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.”

Thinking Should Fighting Sports Attitude Ambivalence

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did it and I liked it. It comes down to a libertarian issue for me. I feel that if I know the risks and I want to take them, I should be allowed to do so.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Should Kind Reason Sports Issues Risk Type Philosophical Libertarian Arguing Lofty Rationale

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the hands seems like a nice thing to do. If you were being punched in the brain by a powerful man, wouldn't you rather he strap a pillow around his fist? But the glove doesn't do anything to diminish your brain damage.”

Ifs Men Made Hands Seems Sports Powerful Effort Brain Nice Authority Granted Things To Do Damage Combat Savages Diminish Fists Pillow Gloves Nice Things Powerful Man

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.”

Ifs Way Want Language Sports Ability Crazy Dangerous Serious Weapons Ancient Harm Violent Fighter Civilized Rome Fists Symbolic Gloves Ancient Rome Accentuate Throwback

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.”

Ifs Done Stars Sports Rocks Rock Star Snaps Ankles Sports Stars

Author:Dave Grohl

“I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.”

Sports Musician University Designer Brown Dna Rowing

Author:Dhani Harrison

“I think that money has changed my sport.”

Thinking Sports Changed

Author:Bill Toomey

“Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.”

Helping Sports Break Areas Barriers Breaking Down

Author:Clare Balding

“Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.”

Sports Team Ultimate Filmmaking Sports Team

Author:Michael Keaton

“The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.”

People Believe Humans Sports Can Do Human Beings Levels Highest Athlete

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.”

Kids Sports Blow Reactions Chosen My Sister Mould Plasters

Author:J. J. Abrams

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