Courage Sports Quotes

#1. We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

Joe Paterno

#2. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.

Sharon Robinson

#3. 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

#4. The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.

Jack Johnson

#5. A leader in sports, business, or any other field of endeavor should possess and provide the same qualities inherent in a good parent: character, consistency, dependability, accountability, knowledge, good judgment, selflessness, respect, courage, discipline, fairness, and structure.

John Wooden

#6. The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

Walt Disney

#7. I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.

Matt Smith

#8. Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

George Will

#9. It feels good to show some courage.

Joe Namath

#10. The essence of sport is courage.

Thomas McGuane

#11. You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Joe Namath

#12. The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

Dean Smith

#13. Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

George Matthew Adams

#14. Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

George Will

#15. Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

Janet Reno

#16. The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

John Bingham