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Here's a collection of all kinds of sporty quotes! Use any of them if you'd like!


Winning/Losing
Basketball Cheerleading Running
 Baseball
Softball Lacrosse Swimming
Football
Hockey Wrestling Dance
 
^ Top ^                               Winning/Losing
 
A tie is like kissing your sister, it doesn't count
 
 
Don't think of it as losing, think of it as getting beat by a girl
 
 
If you say I can't you won't, If you say I quit you lose, If you
say I'll try you might just win, but you have the power to choose
 
 
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
 
 
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
 
 
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at
practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
 
 
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
 
 
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad,
and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
 
 
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on
what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
 
 
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about
self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
 
 
It's not called showing off,
it's called you being mad because you can't do it
 
 
Good, better, best; never let it rest
till your good is better and your better is best.
 
 
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat
 
 
You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself
in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure,
I feel sorry for you.
 
 
Play like you're in first, but train like you're in second
 
 
Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goal
 
 
When you put on that jersey, the name on the front
means a hell of a lot more then the one on the back
 
 
The best feeling in the world is walking into an athletic atmosphere
knowing that others are scared to death to compete against you
 
 
Don't be content with average because average
is just as close to the bottom as it is to the top
 
 
If you mess with the best, you lose like the rest.
 
 
To play with us, you've got to be smart. To keep up with us,
 you've got to be quick. But to beat us? You've got to be kidding!
 
 
I play the game. I Play it Smart.
My energy comes from the Heart
 I use my head I move my Feet
Don't mess w/me I'm 100% athlete!
 
 
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose,
you have lost.
 
 
You don't lose the game, you just run out of time
 
 
Obstacles are put in our way to see if what we want is really worth fighting for
 
 
live free, die proud.
have fun, play loud!
 
 
When you put on that jersey, the name on the front
means a hell of a lot more then the one on the back.
 
^ Top ^                                 Basketball
 
You miss 100% of all shots you don't take!
 
 
To make the shot -- you've gotta take it first!
 
 
Basketball is like photography, if you don't focus, all you have is the negative
 
^ Top ^                              Cheerleading
 
Cheerleaders are happy, happiness sucks
Cheerleaders clap, they look like ducks.
They think their all that and a bag o' chips!
Well actually there a bunch o' dits!!
 
 
Cheerleader (n.): An athlete who can jump, kick, toss catch,
       stunt, tumble, scream, and fly!
 
 
I only cheer on two occasions...DAY and NIGHT
 
 
Other athletes lift weights
 Cheerleaders lift other athletes
 
^ Top ^                                 Running
 
It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea
is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the
competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit
 
 
Runners just do it - they run for the finish line
even if someone else has reached it first
 
 
Running has given me the courage to start,
the determination to keep trying,
and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way.
 Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running
 
 
If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it,
you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve
your performance, or just finish the race its up to you.
 
 

100% Pure Running Nothing Added:
No balls, pads, bats, gloves. No nets, hoops, racquets.
No hash marks, or helmets. No jerseys, skirts,
stirrup socks or mouth guards. No Chewing Tobacco.
 JUST RUNNING
 
 
Cross Country - Our sport is your sports punishment.
 
^ Top ^                                   Baseball
 
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want somebody else to go chase it
 
 
I play because I can
You watch because you cant
 
 
Never let your fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
 
 
The only thing fair in life is a ball hit between first and third.
 
^ Top ^                                  Softball
 
If baseball is life, softball is heaven.
 
 
The only difference between baseball and softball is,
that when you get hit by a softball it leaves a bigger mark.
 
 
Dad's coach us. Mom's watch us.
Girls envy us and boys chase us.
Thank God I'm a softball player.
 
^ Top ^                                 Lacrosse
 
Lacrosse - Guys invented it, girls perfected it.
 
^ Top ^                                Swimming
 
You know you're a swimmer when you can only ever buy one style of goggles because all others don't fit the permanent goggles marks on your face.
 
 
Swimming is a sport, everything else is just a game.
 
 
You know you're a swimmer when you see nothing wrong in saying
"I'll show you my breast, if you will show me your fly. "
 

The swimmer who says it can't be done,
is lapped by the swimmer who is doing it.
 
 
Swimming is the only sport where you go from
point A to point A and work like hell to get there.
 
 

There is nothing like the smell of chlorine in the morning
and the smell of victory in the evening.
 
^ Top ^                                   Football

The game of life is a lot like football.  You tackle your problems,
block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
 

Baseball is what we were.  Football is what we have become
 

Pro Football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
 
^ Top ^                                   Hockey
 
Hockey's a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game.
It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself
 
 
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept
 
 
I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out
 
 
A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players
strike when they can't hit one another
 
^ Top ^                                  Wrestling
 
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
 
 
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
 
 
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when
you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired
 
^ Top ^                                    Dance
 
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness,
we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams,
we are the dancers, we create the dreams
 
 
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart
 
 
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music
 
 
Dance with your heart, dance what you feel
 that's when you know the dancer is real
 


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