20 Legendary Sports Quotes for Sales Reps

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As we prepare to plow full steam ahead into Q4, it is important to take a moment to re-charge our internal lithium batteries in order to cross that finish line guns blazin’.

We have complied a list of 20 of the most goose bump-inducing quotes from sports legends for you to read to start you off right. Now on your mark, get set…

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Preserve and get it done.

- George Allen

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

-Chuck Noll

You’re never a loser until you quit trying.- Mike Ditka

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement. - Matt Biondi

Set your goals high and don’t stop until you get there.- Bo Jackson

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.- Tommy Lasorda

Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears. - Laird Hamilton

Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you.

- Eddie Robinson

You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.

- Arthur Ashe

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

- Arnold Palmer

It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.

- Paul “Bear” Bryant

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

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them. - Picabo Street

Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

- Larry Bird

If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?- Joe Namath

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year,but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit however, it lasts forever.

- Lance Armstrong

It is not the size of the man but the size of his heart that matters. - Evander Holyfield

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.-Jack Dempsey

I’ve missed more than 9,000 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

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. -Wayne Gretzky

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