Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship. — George Will
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. — Vince Lombardi
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. — Dick Vitale
Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities. — Fielding H. Yost
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. — Daley Thompson
Good sportsmanship goes beyond the game; it starts with respect. — Tommy Hilfiger
Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way. — Jim Courier
At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play. — George Halas
Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide. — Bob Cousy
High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates. — Michael Powers
Learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, and go out and compete again. That's the mark of championship spirit. — Randy Couture
Short Sports Spirit Quotes
The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit. — Jean-Pierre Rives
Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. — Pierre de Coubertin
Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport. — Tommy Hilfiger
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. — Knute Rockne
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence. — Titus Livius
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. — Alex Karras
The spirit is the true self. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Vivacity is the health of the spirit. — Honore de Balzac
Sports Spirit Image Quotes
The real workout starts when you want to stop.
Sports Team Spirit Quotes
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. — Babe Ruth
In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams. — Pierre de Coubertin
Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis. — Berti Vogts
Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit. — Shelagh Delaney
Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character. — John Wooden
Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.
The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness. — Richard M. Daley
Spiritual Sports Quotes
Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building. — Mas Oyama
Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion. — Lorraine Moller
I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well. — George A. Sheehan
Gratitude is the best medicine. It heals your mind, you body and your spirit. And attracts more things to be grateful for.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Woodrow Wilson
People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional. — Mike Tyson
I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor. — Chuck Lorre
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. — Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. — Richard Lerner
I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you. — Troy Polamalu
Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes." — Dan Millman
Sports Team Quotes
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. — George Lincoln Rockwell
A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing. — Tom Landry
Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose. — Ross Perot
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a vision, a dream.
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons — Strive Masiyiwa
When one player is better than you, at this moment, the only thing you can do is work, try to find solutions and try to wait a little bit for your time. I'm going to wait and I'm going to try a sixth time. And if the sixth doesn't happen, a seventh. It's going to be like this. That's the spirit of sport. — Rafael Nadal
Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport. — Manfred von Richthofen
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. — Don Coryell
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic. — Tim Noakes
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. — Bill Shoemaker
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. — Henry David Thoreau
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. — Pat Riley
Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted. — Savielly Tartakower
Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee. — Robert Harris
Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere. — Dan Millman
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. — Jean-Claude Killy
Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger. — Rei Kawakubo
Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit. — Tom Seaver
Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago. — Lincoln Steffens
Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship. — Richard Attias
Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally. You see a lot of guys give up mentally and that's why they get knocked out or submitted. They give up mentally before they lose. — Georges St-Pierre
Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. — Pat Riley
Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. It's the key that unlocks my spirit, the clearest representation of who I am. When I'm focused, climbing is almost an unconscious act for me. I don't have to drive myself, I'm already driven. — Stacy Allison
Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy, things are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am sure, become one of the most popular. Many of us will perish before then, but that prospect will not dismay the braver spirits. . . . It is so delicious to fly like a bird! — Marie Marvingt
If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body
Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit,
Felt in the tingling bruises of collision,
And known to captains as esprit de corps. — Anthony Hecht
The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one. — Juliana Berners
As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations. — Brian Boitano
The human spirit sublimatesthe impulses it thwarts:a healthy sex life mitigatesthe lust for other sports. — Piet Hein
Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart. — Sergei Bubka
The five S’s of sports training are stamina,speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. — Ken Doherty
The five S’s of sports training are stamina,speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. — Ken Doherty
The five S’s of sports training are stamina,speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. — Ken Doherty
Through fashion I have shown my interpretation of the competitive spirit by dressing sportsmen and women, choosing to work with both those who are among the world's most renowned athletes and also those who are yet to achieve fame in the arena of sport. — Giorgio Armani
Sports keep you feeling cheerful, feeling spirited, it's a kind of a thriving feeling. — Rajashree Choudhury
What's the benefit of hatha yoga? Physical. What do you need to do hatha yoga? Physical body. That's it. Breathing and spirit is a part of any sport. So that's why hatha yoga can be a sport. — Rajashree Choudhury
Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory; to master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity. — Douglas MacArthur
The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit. — Pierre de Coubertin
Filmmaking and television series are team sports. Look for the best team for you. Plan, budget your time, money and spirit. You need all three to get serious work done. Never say no because something scares you. Never say yes because you're flattered. Stay open, but stay proud. It never gets easy. Get over that part. Get on with it. — Karen Walton
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