Quotes by Athletes - Page 2

It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ
Roger Bannister
I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.
Louis Zamperini
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
I was raised to face any challenge.
Louis Zamperini
When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time. If you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. Win the day!
Drew Brees
Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!
Eric Liddell
You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.
Eric Liddell
Don’t just hope the big idea is going to come, make it happen
Simon Dunn
Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.
Mariah Burton Nelson
There is no history of anything happening until it does.And then there is.
Ronda Rousey
It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.
Louis Zamperini
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
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
Someday find my son...tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth."--A Letter to Jesse Owens
Luz Long
If you ever wanna be motivated, go try and be homeless for a day and that will just light a fire under your butt like none other.
Ronda Rousey
I would love to continue to be someone that is positive but also be someone that is objective,
Tim Tebow
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
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens
Whether through grains, beans, or even fruit, there’s plenty of protein in a plant-strong diet. We only need 5-8% of our calories from protein, and since protein is the one macronutrient that we can’t store, when you get above 15% it either stores as fat or we excrete it.
Rip Esselstyn
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
Kathrine Switzer
We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.
Roger Crawford
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Roger Crawford
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close.
Jesse Owens
Regardless of how your life will impact others and what that will look like, I just know that when your identity is grounded in God, when you trust in Him, you become part of a bigger picture. And you begin to live out this wonderful poem He has written for your life. This is the truth when life is smooth sailing, and this is the truth when storms come.
Tim Tebow
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
To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.
Louis Zamperini
Don't eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat.
Rip Esselstyn
Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well.
Iván Fernández Anaya
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
All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.
Louis Zamperini
Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
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
Life is about more that quotes about life
John Chaplin
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle.
Sanya Richards-Ross
When people say, "Oh you're so cocky. You're so arrogant," I feel like they're telling me that I think too highly of myself. My question for them is: "Who are you to tell me that I need to think less of myself?
Ronda Rousey
If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.
Carl Lewis
Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.
Louis Zamperini
God knew my needs and took care accordingly.
Louis Zamperini
(after asking Christ into his heart) I waited. And then, true to His promise, He came into my heart and my life. The moment was more than remarkable; it was the most realistic experience I'd ever had. I'm not sure what I expected; perhaps my life or my sins or a great white light would flash before my eyes; perhaps I'd feel a shock like being hit by a bolt of lightning. Instead, I felt no tremendous sensation, just a weightlessness and an enveloping calm that let me know that Christ had come into my heart.
Louis Zamperini
This is how it needs to be in life. Solomon also wrote these words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) "Two are better than one, because if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls down and has no one to help them up." God didn't intend for us to do life alone. So let me ask you, who do you turn to when life hits you hard in the mouth? Your family? Some trusted friends? A teacher or coach? Are you building relationships today that will be there for you tomorrow when adversity comes your way? Do you have humility to look to others for strength and encouragement, or are you holding to the foolish pride that says, "I need to make it alone"?
Kirk Cousins
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.
Clara Hughes
However ordinary each of us may seem, we are all in some way special, and can do things that are extraordinary, perhaps until then…even thought impossible.
Roger Bannister
The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.
Louis Zamperini
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
(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.
Louis Zamperini
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
One's freedom is one's love and one's love is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary...
Duncan McNaughton
To understand what's happening in the U.S. presidential election of 2016, you need to know what's going on in the year 2024! Soundscape: Where hearing is believing.
Royce Flippin
Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams
Donovan Bailey
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
Fighting is not a man thing, it's a human thing.
Ronda Rousey
The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.
Louis Zamperini
Most people want to be perceived as Katana swords, but they don’t spend enough time in the forge to even be butter knives.
Jason Taylor
Don’t be the majority, just hoping for your name to be called, because it won’t happen.
Jason Taylor
You don’t have to be the Zig Ziglar of sales to get promoted; in fact, the key to being noticed by most people of authority is just to show up when needed.
Jason Taylor
Compete like you cannot fail.
Steve Backley
One's course in life often pivots on small incidents.
Sidney Huntington
We all have an artistic side that we have to express if we want to live a life that feels whole.
Dhani Jones
Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again.
Duncan McNaughton
If I didn't work as hard as I could, then I think it would be a bit like saying, 'God, thanks for giving me this ability, but I don't really care about it. I'm going to do something else, and I'm not going to work quite as hard.
Tim Tebow