You need to keep your body strong to keep your spirit strong.
Quotes and aphorisms about sports of great people
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I want to use whole body gymnastics to make him more balanced. Socrates
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Gymnastics, physical exercise, and walking should become firmly established in the everyday life of everyone who wants to maintain efficiency, health, and a full and joyful life. Hippocrates
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Sport becomes a means of education when it is everyone’s favorite activity. Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky
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He's great. There is something sad about Bob Marley dying at 35. He loved sports, music... That's what Jamaica reminds me of. I think sports and music go well together. Arsene Wenger
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The most interesting thing in skiing is to climb as high into the mountains as possible, where there is no one, where no one has laid a ski track, and go from one hut to another through high passes and glaciers. Ernest Hemingway
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It's very difficult to get up for training at five in the morning when you sleep on silk sheets. Marvin Hagler
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You need to keep your body strong to keep your spirit strong. V. Hugo
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The most important condition for improving memory performance is the healthy state of the nerves, for which physical exercise is necessary. K. D. Ushinsky
Quotes from great athletes about sports
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If my name remains in football, then I owe it not to Mother Nature or lucky genes, but first of all to those who made up the environment in which I grew up and was brought up, to those who taught me to work and play football.
Lev Yashin (legendary Soviet football player who played for Dynamo Moscow and the USSR national team. Olympic champion in 1956 and European champion in 1960, five-time champion of the USSR)
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Running is a big question mark. Every day he asks you: “Who will you be today - a weakling or a strong-willed person? Peter Mayer (Canadian marathon runner, two-time Olympic champion)
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I play every match the same way, as if it were a final. Lionel Messi (Argentine football player, as part of the youth team he became the 2005 world champion and 2008 Olympic champion)
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Without discipline, it doesn't matter how good you are. Without discipline you are nothing. Someday you will meet a tough guy who will take all your best hits and keep coming. Remember this and do not lose your fortitude and courage. This is the time when discipline comes into play. Mike Tyson (American heavyweight boxer, Olympic champion among juniors in the first heavyweight division)
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The most important thing I've learned is to find the right people and avoid the bad ones. Learned to set goals and achieve them. I learned to plan - I make a plan for the day, for the week, for the month, for four years. I calculate every step I take. And you know, it helps, and not only in sports. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (Norwegian biathlete, the most decorated athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics)
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When I go on the court, it doesn't matter to me who is on the opposite side. I just want to play my game. I respect any opponent, but at the same time I always want to win. Maria Sharapova (Russian tennis player, former world number one, silver medalist at the 2012 Olympic Games)
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The key is the desire of a person to become better, more perfect in what he does in life. Bjorn Daly (Norwegian skier, eight-time Olympic champion and nine-time world champion)
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I've missed 9,000 times in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I was entrusted with the decisive shot and missed. I failed again and again. And that's why I was successful. Michael Jordan (American basketball player, two-time Olympic champion)
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It's not the mountains you have to climb that are stopping you. No, a pebble in your shoes is bothering you. Muhammad Ali (one of the greatest boxers in the history of sports, Olympic champion)
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To become an athlete, to achieve some heights, you need to love your sport - this idea is obvious. But there is a second condition - you need to live somewhere near the stadium, at least in a place where there would be conditions for practicing your favorite sport. Valery Kharlamov (Soviet hockey player, two-time Olympic champion and eight-time world champion)
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I always worked on fundamental things because I knew athleticism is fleeting. Kobe Bryant (American professional basketball player)
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My goal is to be the best everywhere and always! This means I have to play to the best of my ability. LeBron James (American professional basketball player, playing as a small forward and a power forward)
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When I go out onto the court, I don’t pay attention to who my opponent is. Although I respect every opponent, my only desire is to win. Maria Sharapova (Honored Master of Sports in tennis, one of the best tennis players in the world, multiple winner of Grand Slam tournaments)
Love working on yourself and your body. Positive emotions make us beautiful. And after them I go to the gym. Irina Shayk, model
A healthy lifestyle is the path to perfection!
Quotes about sports and a healthy lifestyle
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Great sport begins where health care ends. Bertolt Brecht
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If you don't run while you're healthy, you'll have to run when you're sick. Horace
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One who gives up physical exercise often wastes away, because the strength of his organs weakens due to refusal to move. Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
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In a healthy body healthy mind. Juvenal
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A healthy lifestyle is the path to perfection! Peter Kwiatkowski
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If you don't run while you're healthy, you'll have to run when you're sick.
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Sport helps very well to get rid of all bad habits. Jean Paul Belmondo
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The principle of a healthy lifestyle, the principle of optimal physical activity, a person should learn as elements of culture in the worst case from school, in the best - even earlier, in the family, in kindergarten. N. M. Amosov
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To enjoy endless health, you need to work on yourself Paul Breg
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If health is the true symbol of freedom, then sport is the true symbol of health. Peter Kwiatkowski
A man's best friends in the world are beautiful, reliable, cast iron weights!
If you give up, it won't get better
In sports, as in any other business, the first step is important. Are you determined to change your life? This is already half the battle! The main thing is not to put it off until tomorrow or Monday. Start today, now. And our selection of quotes and aphorisms about sports and motivation will help you with this.
“No effort is in vain: Sisyphus developed his muscles.”
Paul Valéry
“God gave us a body that can endure almost anything. Our task is to convince our minds of this.”
“Yesterday you said that you would do it tomorrow. Do it today!”
“One action is worth more than a thousand intentions.”
John Mason
“You can be as good as you want to be. The main thing is to work hard and believe in yourself."
Scott Adkins
“It doesn't matter how slow you go. The main thing is that you don’t stop.”
Bruce Lee
“Our brain can do anything. Everything. The main thing is to convince yourself of this. The arms don’t know that they can’t do push-ups, the legs don’t know that they are weak. Your brain knows this. Once you convince yourself that you can do anything, you can truly do anything.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“My main rival is myself.”
Yelena Isinbayeva
“Gold medals are not made of gold. They are made of sweat, determination and a very rare mixture called willpower."
Dan Gable
“If you feel like you're giving up, remember why you were holding on before!”
Jared Leto
“Do at least once what others say you can’t do. After that, you will never pay attention to their rules and restrictions.”
James Cook
“A determined person cannot be prevented from succeeding. Place stumbling blocks in his path, and he will turn them into steps along which he will climb to the top.”
David Villa
“If you want, you will find time. If you don’t want to, you’ll find a reason.”
“There is a goal, there is a distance. The rest is details."
“The pain you endure today will turn into the strength you feel tomorrow.”
Gym Fitness Quotes
Here are some popular motivational quotes from the gym and bodybuilding...
- Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow.
- The best exercise is the one you actually do.
- Remember why you started.
- If it was easy, would it be worth it?
- Wake up with determination. Go to be satisfied.
- Strength grows the moment you think you can't go any further, but you keep going anyway.
- A decent method that you follow is better than a perfect method that you abandon. – Tim Ferriss
- If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.
- The body achieves what the mind believes.
- Don't wish for it, work for it.
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