Quotes by Athletes - Page 2

Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.
Louis Zamperini
Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.
Steve Backley
Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.
Steve Backley
I was nervous and confident at the same time nervous about going out there in front of all of those people with so much at stake and confident that I was going to go out there and win.
Althea Gibson
People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.
Florence Griffith Joyner
all about that action boss
marshawn lynch
Invest your energy in the things you can control.
Steve Backley
When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.
Kathrine Switzer
It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.
Steve Backley
Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings.
Kirk Cousins
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens
There is no history of anything happening until it does.And then there is.
Ronda Rousey
It is action that creates motivation.
Steve Backley
Someday find my son...tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth."--A Letter to Jesse Owens
Luz Long
Competition is about passion for perfection and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.
Mariah Burton Nelson
You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.
Nancy Ditz
The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.
Steve Backley
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.
Steve Backley
God knew my needs and took care accordingly.
Louis Zamperini
It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ
Roger Bannister
So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits,
Michael Phelps
It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.
Eric Liddell
Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.
Steve Backley
You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal…Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end it’s a loser’s game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else.
Tim Tebow
Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.
Steve Backley
The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.
Louis Zamperini
I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.
Steve Backley
Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.
Steve Backley
A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.
Steve Backley
Compete like you cannot fail.
Steve Backley
So many times the debate of abortion turns to legality. The issue is not legality, the issue is morality. Have you not forgotten? It was legal for Adolf Hitler to place all of those men, women, and children in concentration camps and murder them. Abortion should never be an issue of legality, it is most definitely an issue of morality.
Derrick Sanderson
One's freedom is one's love and one's love is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary...
Duncan McNaughton
If not you, who?
Steve Backley
There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?
Steve Backley
Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake, but you're not supposed to question adults, or your coach or your teacher, because they make the rules. Maybe they know best, but maybe they don't. It all depends on who you are, where you come from. Didn't at least one of the six hundred guys think about giving up, and joining with the other side? I mean, valley of death that's pretty salty stuff. That's why courage it's tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you're doing something. I mean any fool can have courage. But honor, that's the real reason for you either do something or you don't. It's who you are and maybe who you want to be. If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good. I think that's what the writer was saying, that you should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too.
Michael Oher
It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.
Louis Zamperini
When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening any more.
Florence Griffith Joyner
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle.
Sanya Richards-Ross
These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.
Steve Backley
Tim Tebow's Dad turned a screw-up into a testimony when a fire to burn weeds in a field got out of control. With his family still smelling like smoke from containing the fire, he conducted a lesson from verses where James compares danger of speech to an out-of-control spark.
Tim Tebow
Competition can damage self-esteem create anxiety and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.
Mariah Burton Nelson
When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.
Roger Crawford
To think is good. To obsess is bad.
Steve Backley
Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again.
Duncan McNaughton
Life is for participating, not for spectating.
Kathrine Switzer
Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.
Steve Backley
When you think a positive thought, you become positive.
Steve Backley
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!
Kathrine Switzer
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
Allyson Felix
Although you can’t go back in time and alter your natural level of potential, you can determine how much of that ability you tap into, exploit and develop for the future.
Steve Backley
The Bible speaks of the Word of God as added. Sometimes it's planted by the wayside, and nothing grows there. Sometimes it's sown among the thorns and represents the person who makes the decision an then goes back to his old life of bars and chasing women or whatever. A third seed is sown among the rocks. There's sand and dirt between the rocks, and when it rains you'll see a stalk of green coming up. But on the first day with sunshine it wilts because there is no room for roots.The fourth seed is planted on fertile soil, and finally it takes hold and has a chance to grow and live. That's what happened to me.
Louis Zamperini
Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality.
Kilian Jornet
If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.
Steve Backley
All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.
Louis Zamperini
If, in the quiet of your heart, you feel something should be done, stop and consider whether it is in line with the character and teaching of Jesus. If so, obey that impulse to do it, and in doing so you will find it was God guiding you.
Eric Liddell
To deliver your own personal maximum, you’ll realise there are no shortcuts; if you want to be a champion it is all about rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in.
Steve Backley
I pray hard work hard and leave the rest to God.
Florence Griffith Joyner
The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.
Steve Backley