Sports Quotes Inspirational





Sports Quotes Inspirational brings you just that. Motivational sayings from sportsmen and women, mainly, about sport mainly, but the sentiments are applicable to life and business and politics, mainly










Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
George Allen, Football Coach

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It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad Ali

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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

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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

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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

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You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.
Bear Bryant

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Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
Paul Coffey

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

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If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
Chris Evert

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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott, Priest

Sports Quotes Inspirational

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

Timothy Gallwey

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Losers visualize the penalties of failure, but winners visualize the rewards of success.

Rod Gilbert

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
Wayne Gretzky

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

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In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.
Sam Huff

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We control by attitudes - positive mental attitudes - not by rules.
Woody Hayes

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Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
George Halas

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The answer to the following three questions will determine your success: (1) Can people trust me to do my best? (2) Am I committed to the task at hand? (3) Do I care about other people and show it? - If the answer is yes, there is no way you can fail.
Lou Holtz

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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
Magic Johnson (borrowed from J F Kennedy)

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The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Jean Claude Killy

Sports Quotes Inspirational

I'll go out and do my best. I'm not afraid to fail. My father has a saying, "If you're worried, you're not praying," and I pray a lot. Shaun King, Football

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Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
Ray Knight

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

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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Tom Landry

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Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
George Leonard

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Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.
Al Oerter

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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

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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
Knute Rockne

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers

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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club wont be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth

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The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
George Shultz

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

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There's nothing wrong with setting goals, but it doesn't mean a thing if you don't pay attention to the day-to-day details.
Don Shula, Football

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Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith

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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, skier

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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should accomplish with your ability.
John Wooden

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

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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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You've got to have the guts not to be afraid to screw up. The guys who win are the ones who are not afraid to mess up. And that comes right from the heart.
Fuzzy Zoeller, Golfer



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