Motivational Sports Quotes

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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth (baseball player)

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Motivational Sports Quotes

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi (football coach)

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong (bicycle racer)

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden (basketball coach)

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra (baseball player)

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

Sports are a microcosm of society.
- Billie Jean King (tennis player)

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali (boxer)

Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules.
Sports teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose, it teaches you about life.
- Billie Jean King

People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi

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 (basketball player)

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali

Motivational Quotes for Athletes

Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.
You must set yourself on fire.
- Reggie Leach

Sports Motivational Quotes

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

Persistence prevails when all else fails!
- Anonymous

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone

Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen
in full color with surround sound - so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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