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Gain Wisdom to Be a Winner With These Inspirational Quotes for Sports

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Sports may not be everybody's cup of tea. But you can't stay unaffected when there is an important game on television. Such is the mania of sports. Sports teach you important lessons about winning. Here is a collection of inspirational quotes for sports. Read them and derive the wisdom to carry on running the race of life.

Billy Martin
There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.

Joe Kapp
They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.

Andrew Carnegie
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Elbert Hubbard
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Aldous Huxley
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Miguel Cervantes
To be prepared is half the victory.

Douglas MacArthur
To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

Rick Mears
To finish first, you must first finish.

Steve Ballesteros
To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

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