Top 5 Lessons from Sports on How to Be Better With Money

Today, you’ll learn from a few other sports figures as we apply lessons they teach to our own money management.

Here are five famous sports quotes.  Follow along as we discuss how they can be applied to winning the game of personal finance.

Lessons from Sports on How to Be Better With Money

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Paul “Bear” Bryant, a hall of fame college football coach, famously said: “Offense sells tickets. Defense wins championships.”   The point that Bear Bryant was making is that scoring is great, and it is a lot of fun to watch. 

Defense Wins Championships

“You drive for show, but putt for dough.”  ~ Bobby Locke For the non-golfers out there, people love to watch someone hit a great drive from the tee-box. The further it goes, the more spectacular the sight. 

Putt for Dough

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. ~Tim Notke The truth is that when life comes easy for people, they often end up getting passed up by the hard workers that started off in a worse position.

Hard Work Beats Talent

“Competitive sports are played mainly on a five-and-a-half inch court, the space between your ears.” ~ Bobby Jones If you want to know the biggest key to both sporting and financial success, this quote sums it up.

The Five-and-a-half-Inch Court

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