Top 1200 Short Motivational Sports Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.

I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.

The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management.

Motivational speaking became my career. Who would ever have thought it?

My father is my true inspiration. He's a motivational speaker, so he does a fine job of guiding me.

Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.

I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.

There is lots of enthusiasm among youth of Haryana about sports. They have potential in sports.

My mum was massively important to everything I've done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

I was a motivational speaker and I've been in front of crowds a lot and I'm very comfortable with that.

Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

I tried sports, but I ended up being a paramedic. There was to be no rugby for me. Believe me, I did try, but I fell short. Rugby is tough, man.

I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.

My main goal when I talk to groups is to educate families on the physical and mental health benefits that playing sports provide young girls. It's not just about going out there and having fun. That's a part of playing sports, but a big chunk of it is all the other things that sports give you to help you become a much more whole, better person.

I used to watch a lot of motivational films and videos to remain positive.

I'm not one for those motivational speeches. I've always been more of an example guy.

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

It's definitely a motivational factor, becoming a three-organization world champion.

Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.

I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

The great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, putting forward the development of sports as a matter that has an important bearing on the prosperity of the country and nation, indicated the road ahead of the Juche-based sports and wrote a new chapter in the history of building a sports power by dint of outstanding ideas and leadership.

Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.

Sports are my passion. They have been since I was a kid. So I think I'll be involved in sports in some capacity no matter what I do.

Deion Sanders played two sports, and Bo Jackson played two sports. I'm not athletic enough to do two sports, but I think I'm good enough to do two professions and do them pretty well at a high level.

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

We want to find a way to be an environmental leader in motor sports, as well as in sports in general.

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

Something amazing happens when you tell people you write about sports for a living. You begin to feel like you're in a scene from 'Dawn of the Dead.' The way people change when talking about 'their team' can be nothing short of zombiefication.

I'm not an agate type ESPN Sports Center highlight, in-your-face kind of a sports fan.

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

People always need to hear good motivational speeches.

Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

Normally sports day is once a year for kids, where you have fun, and everybody is jostling. For us, making movies is like having sports day everyday: competing with each other, doing your best. It's like that except we don't get awards every day in our sports day.

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game.

Motivational talks are something I have been asked to do and i fancy taking a crack at it.

You all know Newt Gingrich. Newt is short for Newton. People say if that's the case, what is Mitt short for? It's short for 'Mittens.'

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

The occasional motivational speech gig tends to pay better than the books and television.

When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

I like Twitter because I'm a creature of the short-attention span theater. I can get a lot of sports opinions and other things and Twitter tells me what time it is, but not how to make the watch.

Music is kind of motivational and it helps me get my mind right.

Don't let your cool stand in the way of being soulful. Life is too short. Too short to hate. Too short to judge. Too short not to live for. Don't let anything or anyone get the best of you or your heart and mind. If you are going down... go down swinging, singing, and loving.

I'm a motivational speaker, so I'm going to look at something in as much of a positive way as possible.

Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.