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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

William James on Sports

More quotes about Sports

  • "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

    Michael Jordan on Sports

  • "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

    Mark Twain on Sports

  • "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

    Mark Twain on Sports

  • "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

    Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

  • "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

    Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by William James

  • "It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

  • "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

  • "It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

  • "Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."

  • "Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."

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