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| # Posted 2010-02-04 18:57:32 | |
| szurcher: | I need a good sports quote. Something about winning/loosing, hard work, training, or along those lines. Anyone got some cool ones for me?? I'm being featured in a magazine for being a "Swiss/American" studying Elite Sports and exercise physiology here in Switzerland. They are going to take a picture of me and put this quote on there. The quote should be about what I do at the university... help? |
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| # Posted 2010-02-04 20:11:09 | |
| jeffw: | One of my favorites is "Champions are made when no one is watching."
There are a lot of good quotes here: http://www.internationalsport.com/nsd/nsd_quotes.c... |
| # Posted 2010-02-05 05:19:47 | |
| mouse136: | If you can be you can be your best. |
| # Posted 2010-02-05 21:30:44 | |
| mikeminium: | A couple classics:
Winners never quit and quitters never win. Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing. I believe the latter was Vince Lombardi, but I'm not 100% sure. I think there's at least one website where you can look up quotes by putting in a subject or theme, and also by typing a quote or partial quote can find the author. If anyone knows such a site, please post a link... I don't have time to go searching right now. |
| # Posted 2010-02-05 23:46:49 | |
| jingo6390: | Dale Earnhardt:
"Second place is just the first place loser" I dont particularly like that one, but it does stick in the mind. |
| # Posted 2010-02-05 23:53:01 | |
| jingo6390: | Here's a website for sports quotes
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_spo... |
| # Posted 2010-02-06 02:41:18 | |
| JayXC: | Search "Dare mighty things" by Teddy Roosevelt. My favorite. |
| # Posted 2010-02-06 15:46:35 | |
| szurcher: | Thanks everyone!
I ended up using this quote from Jesse Owens: "In the end, it’s extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don’t win, how can you lose?" I liked it because it incorporates a lot of things that we studied and talked about in my Master's program and it is not a quote that only glorifies the winner. This fits me, since I don't win a lot of O races here in Europe, but still try my very best. And Jesse Owens was a pretty great athlete, so it's nice to read a quote like that from someone who won a lot. |
| # Posted 2010-02-07 01:12:00 | |
| walk: | Very nice choice. Surely the best mentioned. |
| # Posted 2010-02-07 20:30:27 | |
| j-man: | Yes--that is a great one. What it lacks in pithiness it makes up for in profundity. |
| # Posted 2010-02-08 00:47:07 | |
| AZ: | A classy pick |
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