“Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
“If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”– Michael Phelps
“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” – Wayne Gretzky
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. – Vince Lombardi
“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.” – John Wooden
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’”– Muhammad Ali
“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” – Jerry West
“I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” – Larry Bird
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” “Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.” – Babe Ruth
“What keeps me going is not winning, but the quest for reaching potential in myself as a coach and my kids as divers. It’s the pursuit of excellence.” – Ron O’Brien
“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.” – Ross Perot
“I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that’s true for a lot of women—sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.” – Teri McKeever
Sports Quotes About Adversity
“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”– Dan Gable
“The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.”– Wayne Gretzky
“The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.” – Eddie Reese
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” – William A. Ward
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” – Muhammad Ali
“Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there. ” – Venus Williams
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“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
“You might not be able to outthink, out market or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.” – Lou Holtz
“You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself.” – Larry Brown
“What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.” – Dean Smith
“I’ve failed over & over & over again in my life & that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
“Goals prepare Olympic athletes physically and mentally. Did you know that goals are used by sports psychologists in order to help athletes improve their performance?” – Paul Bailey
“Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
“In sports, players need to be reminded of their competition to become motivated to practice. The same can be applied in business.” – Gavin McGinnis
“Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit.” – Mike Tyson
“I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.” – Arnold Palmer
“Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.” – Vince Lombardo
“Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.” – Rocky Balboa
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“At one point in your life you either have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t.” – Andy Roddick
“It never gets easier. You just get better.” – Jordan Hoechlin
“Winning is a habit leadership is calmly maintaining that habit against all odds.” – Amit Ray
“Losing teaches you how to win, winning teaches you how not to lose.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
Sports Quotes About Winning
“A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.” – Pat Riley
“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” – Vince Lombardi
“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” – Jack Lemmon
“Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.” – Casey Stengel
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.”— Vince Lombardi
“When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.” – Bill Shoemaker
“Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan
“In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.” ― Sam Huff
“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”― Mike Singletary
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.” – Knute Rockne
Inspirational sports quotes to give you motivation
“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
“Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.” – Steve Nash
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”– Wayne Gretzky
“I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.” – Yogi Berra
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” – Muhammad Ali
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.” – John Wooden
Sports Quotes About Losing
“Competitive sports are played mainly on a five-and-a-half inch court, the space between your ears.” – Bobby Jones
“Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.” – Pele
“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.”
– Emil Zatopek
“At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.” – Arsene Wenger
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
“Passion first and everything will fall into place.” – Holly Holm
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“I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.” – Sandy Koufax
“I don’t have to wait for nobody, I move when I wanna move.” – Floyd Mayweather
“Most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside.”– Brett Favre
“Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.”– Lou Brock
“You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally as a human being.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Nothing else will show your true character than how you lose.” – Ken Gleed
“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” – Bobby Unser
“Winners never quit and quitters never win. Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” – Heywood Broun
“It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.” – Jillian Michaels
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“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” – Steve Young
“There are certain basic qualities and characteristics you’ve got to have. Number one: you’ve got to have a will to win.” – Bob Richards
“A champion is someone who does not settle for that day’s practice, that day’s competition, that day’s performance. They are always striving to be better. They don’t live in the past.” – Briana Scurry
“Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.” – Knute Rockne
“Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.” – Paul Bryant
“Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry.” – Earl Monroe
“Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision.” – Muhammad Ali
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
Sports Quotes About Confidence
“You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.”– Homer Rice
“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.” – Hank Aaron
“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
“If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.”– Herschel Walker
“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.”– Ronnie Lott
“If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.”– Carl Lewis
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”– Michael Jordan
“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”– Lou Holtz
“Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.”– Ted Williams
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“Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”– Larry Bird
“The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.”– Joe Paterno
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.”– Satchel Paige
“You’re never a loser until you quit trying.”– Mike Ditka
“I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.” — Michael Jordan
“Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.” – Jim Valvano
“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” – Paul Bryant
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” – John Wooden
“The best motivation always comes from within.” – Michael Johnson
“The secret of winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals. I play not my 11 best, but my best 11.” – Knute Rockne
“To succeed…You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” – Tony Dorsett
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“You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.” – Bobby Knight
“Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.” – Dan Reeves
Sports Quotes About Leadership
“Winning solves everything.” — Tiger Woods
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“Life is gonna throw you curve balls and it’s how you deal with them and your attitude and your work ethic.” – Kerri Strug
“For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.” — Emmitt Smith
“So many people along the way, whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can’t be done. But all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach.” – Michael Phelps
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“Losing feels worse than winning feels good.” — Vin Scully
“You’ll score a lot of goals in your career but not one of them will happen without the help of a teammate.” – Abby Wambach
“It ain’t over till it’s over.” – Yogi Berra
“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” – Arnold Palmer
“Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.” — Billie Jean King
“Some may have more talent than you, but there is no excuse for anyone working harder than you do.” – John Tavares
“No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.” — Bill Parcells
“To me the beauty of teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” – Coach Mike Krzyzewski
“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.”— George Steinbrenner
“The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.” – Jackie Joyner Kersee
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” – Vernon Law
“Don’t tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.” – Lou Holtz
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” – “Babe” Ruth
“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.” – Phil Jackson
“Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.” – Fredrik Backman
“There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and worse. Others will come along who can run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and you will be forgotten. Your winning moment is dated to die.” – Charlie Higson
“Never underestimate the heart of a champion!” – Doc Rivers
Sports Quotes About Success
“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” – Wayne Gretzky
“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.” — Paul Brown
“Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.” – Vince Lombardi
“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath
“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.” – Andre Agassi
“Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.” – Tommy Lasorda
“Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.” – Wilma Rudolph
“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.” – Mia Hamm
“I am no genius; I just worked hard like my other teammates, and I believe all my teammates can win the title as they work hard, too.” – Lin Dan
“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.” – Yogi Berra
