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Motivational Sports Quotes

Posted on May 21, 2011 by

The most important thing in sport is your motivation. You can’t be one of the best without motivation. Let me share with you some great motivational sports quotes.

“Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do.” – Martina Navratilova

“The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret” – Sarah Bombell

“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without a total 100 percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this.” – Willie Mays

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory.” – Vince Lombardi

“Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.” – Babe Didrikson Zaharias

“The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.” – John Wooden

“Don’t give up at half-time. Concentrate on winning the second half.” – Paul Bryant

“The Truth is that Running Hurts. No one gets faster without meeting their personal pain barrier straight on. No amount of junk miles, fun runs or affirmations are going to get you over the hill at the five mile mark in a 10k. However, what will pull you through is solid prep with hard hill runs and interval work.” – Manciata

“Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” – Venus Williams

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

“My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.” – Wilma Rudolph

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda

“If you believe in yourself, have dedication and pride and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.” – Paul Bryant

“The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.” – Arthur Ashe

“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” – Jerry West

“The answer to three questions will determine your success or failure.
1 – Can people trust me to do my best?
2 – Am I committed to the task in hand?
3 – Do I care about other people and show it?
If the answers to all three questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.” – Lou Holtz

“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” – Leroy Paige

“Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.” – Bryan Moseley

“I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win–if you don’t, you won’t.” – Bruce Jenner, Olympic Gold Medalist, Decathlon

“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.” – Gordie Howe

“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.” – Gale Sawers

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” – Vincent T. Lombardi

“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.” – Mike Singletary

“It’s great to win, but it’s also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.” – Jack Nicklaus

“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

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” – George Herman “Babe” Ruth

“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” – Steve Young

“If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.” – Dick Vermeil

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” – Muhammad Ali

“I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline… I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour – this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious.” – Vince Lombardi

“When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.” – Katarina Witt

“Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.” – Ron Jaworski

“Just do what you do best.” – Red Auerbach

“I didn’t just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn’t let the lows get to me.” – Lance Armstrong

“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.” – Winston Churchill

“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” – Stan Smith

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda

Martha Graham Quotes

Posted on May 11, 2011 by

Martha Graham was one of the best dancers and choreographers of all time. Today we celebrate his anniversary in our way, sharing Martha Graham Quotes.

‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Learn by practice.

Misery is a communicable disease.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

The body is a sacred garment.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

The body never lies.

The body says what words cannot.

The only sin is mediocrity.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

The body is a sacred garment.

There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination. There is a great deal of outer space, distant from our daily lives, where I feel our imagination wanders sometimes. It will find a planet or it will not find a planet, and that is what a dancer does.

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

Misery is a communicable disease.

In 1980. a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, “Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability.” I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.

I’m asked so often at ninety-six whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonimity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.

Quotes to Cheer You Up

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

Feeling Depressed? You had a bad day? Let me share with you some quotes to cheer you up. You will be amazed about how your day will be better just by reading some great quotes.

“In fighting and in every day life, you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tension yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit”. – Miyamoto Musashi

“One of the simplest things about our life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on…” – Normal Vincent Peale

“The indispensable first step in getting the things you want out of your life is this: first decide what you want!” – Ben Stein

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them”. – Henry David Thoreau

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Marianne Williamson

“Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting”. – Author Unknown.

“Never allow some one to be your priority, while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Author Unknown.

“Experience something fully, then drop it and move on to the next moment, uninfluenced by the previous one”. – Anthony de Mello.

“Some of the God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers”. – Garth Brooks.

Best of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Posted on February 5, 2011February 5, 2011 by

– “A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.”

– “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

– “Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

– “Every artist was first an amateur.”

– “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

– “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

– “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

– “Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”

– “In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.”

– “Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique.”

– “It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

– “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

– “Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.”

– “Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”

– “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…”

– “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

– “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

– “None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

– “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

– “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

– “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.”

– “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– “Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.”

– “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

– “Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”

– “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

– “What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”

– “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”

– “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

– “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”