While I was getting all choked up about A League of Their Own, I started thinking about how motivating a great sports movie can be. Whether it's a weepy figure-skating story (Ice Castles, anyone?) or a classic baseball flick like Field of Dreams, sports movies can be emotionally riveting and highly entertaining. So speak up and tell me: Which sports-centric film motivates you the most?
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ROCKY!! All of them!
1when I was skating competitively I saw Rocky...the one with The Russian dude...and that really inspired me to train harder. Any ice skating movie has always done that for me too.
2I LOVE A League of Their Own!! One of my fave movies of all time. I also love Rookie of the Year but I don't know if that's really motivating.. haha
3Mighty Ducks!
4I am from Indiana and I love Hoosiers, But speaking of Indiana I love young Dennis Quaid in Breaking Away, about bike racing.
5Ummm, Remember the Titans, and probably every dancing movie ever made, except I'm not sure that they're really sports movies.
6Wimbledon. I used to play tennis for fun. I know pro tennis is not for fun, but a great way to take your aggressions out on a ball.
7Million Dollar Baby!!!!
8I love A League of their Own, it was really inspiring to me when I was younger because I played softball for five years. Ice Castles and Remember the Titans are also great sports movies.
9Oh, Rudy and Field of Dreams are great too. I haven't seen Rudy or Remember the Titans in years though.
10my friends joke that i'm an "inspirational sports movie junkie." Favorites include - Rudy, Remember the Titans, Miracle, A League of Their Own. I know their are tons more, but I can't remember off the top of my head.
11I am with tlsgirl on the dancing movies. Centerstage makes me want to start training again every time I watch it!
12Friday Night Lights! Forever and always!
13I LOVE A League Of Their Own. Rudy, Million Dollar Baby and Remember The Titans were amazing, too!
14Field of Dreams!
15I'm not a big fan of sports movies, but I love a league of their own.
16Where's remember the titans? That movie was the best!
17I must admit that I'm not into "sports" movies on a regular basis like I am for horror movies, comedy & the occasional action film.
But I was moved by one "sports" movie that I saw for the 1st time on TV about 15 years ago, and a few times since then. The 1971 "BRIAN'S SONG", about real-life Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) & his friendship with fullback Brian Piccolo (James Caan). It dealt not only with the fact that most players were white & not all that accepting of black players joining the teams, but having to "work together" to win. Slowly Piccolo & Sayers become fast friends on & off the field... then Piccolo develops cancer & Sayers stands by his pal.
The ending was so sad, yet uplifting in the way that when adversity comes knocking, true friends don't see the differences but are there for each other regardless of what life throws at them...
Finally, there was the real-life account of Jill Kinmont, who was a shoo-in for the 1956 Winter Olympics until her downhill accident during the tryouts in Alta, Utah in 1955 resulted in paralysis from the neck down. I was a crying mess when I saw the movie. Maybe you guys could give it a try: "The Other Side of the Mountain"... Very good.
That's about it. I guess I'm weird by not liking sports?
'Bye
18Cool Runnings, about the jamaician bobsled team is a MUST every time it's on
19Field of Dreams.
20league of their own, field of dreams and remember the titans. oh yeaaaah.
21Miracle... hands down
22Rocky all the way!!
23Without Limits!! I always want to run after that movie.
24For some crazy reason I watch Any Given Sunday when it comes on. I also like Wimbledon and The Waterboy.
25Remember the Titans!!! I get goosebumps whenever I watch it.
26Remember the Titans, makes me cry and then get up and go for a run. Loves it
27Hoosiers, The Natural, Bull Durham, Nadia
28Remember the Titans
29Rudy!!!!
I watched it while I was trying to get pregnant and very frustrated at yet another month of a negative pregnancy test. To top it all off, I got a phone call from a friend telling me she was pregnant AGAIN. After I got off the phone, I continued watching the movie and it was the scene where Rudy finally gets accepted to Notre Dame and starts crying. I cried with him and lo and behold, next month I was pregnant...with twins!
30MIRACLE! I'm not a sports movie person really but I absolutely loved that movie. It's one of my all-time favorites now.
31Miracle! I get goosebumps every time I hear the old footage of a giddy Al Michaels announcing the final seconds of the game. "Do you believe in Miracles? YES!!!"
32The miracle of course!!
33The Mighty Ducks
34when i used to skate - i would have said ice castles - it's a great movie - that and cutting edge did it for me. i always wanted to try new things after seeing them in movies.
besides that - dance movies also inspire me and make me want to do more. center stage, save the last dance...
35Rudy...I love Rudy!! and League of Their Own...but that's mostly for casting Lovitz, all his lines are delivered superbly in that film. Fantastic humor!
36I love Major League! It's really a great story, coming together as a team, making unlikely friends, winning after being dismissed as nobodies, etc.
Rudy always makes me cry, but the part that gets me isn't when he gets to play or when he gets accepted -- it's when his teammates all come into the coach's office and lay down their jerseys. Oh man, I bawl like a baby every time!!!
37I am more of the dancing movies kinda of gal.
38Alethia - totally with you on Center Stage! I have a total love for that movie.
39Definitely Running on the Sun!
This is the documentary about people running the Badwater ultra marathon - 135 miles across Death Valley (temps reach 125 degrees and higher). Instead of just being a look-at-the-freaks movie, it really delves into the different runners and their training and their motivations and their lives. There is no money involved in the race (the big prize: finishing in less than 48 hours means you get a belt buckle)so there are no real pros. These are just regular people, who spend a lot of their spare time training for an incredible physical and mental challenge.
Seeing all these people work to achieve their own goals, sometimes getting them and sometimes failing is just great. I don't run, but it makes me want to get out on my bike and work harder every time I see it!
40Oh, and Blue Crush motivates me every time I see it.
41That Running on the Sun movie sounds really interesting...I'm adding it to my Netflix queue right now!
42Remember The Titans and Hardball are my favs.
43Vision Quest from 1987 - Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorintino
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