Quotes About Sports Motivational

#1. I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your dreams. And three is it looks like a solitary sport but it takes a team.

Diana Nyad

#2. Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

Bill Parcells

#3. Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

Pat Riley

#4. I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys ... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

Denny Crum

#5. One man cannot make a team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#6. I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me

Michael Phelps

#7. Channel your energy. Focus.

Carl Lewis

#8. If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

Bobby Unser

#9. Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

Mamie McCullough

#10. Only through training will a person learn his own weaknesses ... He who is aware of his weaknesses will remain master of himself in any situation.

Gichin Funakoshi

#11. Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.

Pat Riley

#12. I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time.

Dan Bouchard

#13. Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

Jerry Rice

#14. With goals you can create the future in advance.

Tony Robbins

#15. You've got to go through hell ... Before you get to heaven ... Let's do 10 more

Frank Giampaolo

#16. Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

Satchel Paige

#17. I have no regrets because I know I did my best - all I could do.

Midori Ito

#18. When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.

Fred Couples

#19. If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

Bear Bryant

#20. Before every shot, I go to the movies

Jack Nicklaus

#21. There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills.

Grantland Rice

#22. Don't dwell on mistakes, because it will only cause more.

Ned Crotty

#23. In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

Seth Godin

#24. My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.

Phil Jackson

#25. Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.

Fran Tarkenton

#26. Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.

John Wooden

#27. If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.

Aaron Rodgers

#28. Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

Phil Jackson

#29. Falling and getting back up is what brings you success.

Tony Horton

#30. The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.

Tony La Russa

#31. In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

Lou Holtz

#32. If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

Michael Owen

#33. We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

Steve Alford

#34. Always have a 'Plan C

Zoltan Andrejkovics

#35. It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

Delbert McClinton

#36. As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.

Amit Kalantri

#37. Every passion has its destiny.

Billy Mills

#38. The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.

Daniel Goleman

#39. All sports are games of inches.

Dick Ritger

#40. You have to train your mind like you train your body.

Bruce Jenner

#41. Be cool to the pizza dude.

Steele Stanwick

#42. You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.

Carl Erskine

#43. Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

Casey Stengel

#44. Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#45. Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#46. Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

Jim Valvano

#47. In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

Jim Abbott

#48. Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

Seth Godin

#49. People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

Ruben Studdard

#50. If you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over

Gordon Attard

#51. My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

Bill Parcells

#52. If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Bud Wilkinson

#53. The one that works the hardest comes out on top.

Debbie Meyer

#54. Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

Bill Parcells

#55. A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.

Sasha Azevedo

#56. I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.

Bill Parcells

#57. I don't believe the old statement, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." If that were the case, then Cadillacs and Jaguars and Mercedes would never make a change. I've always looked for ways to make things better.

Vic Bubas

#58. The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.

Bill Parcells

#59. Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.

Lasse Viren

#60. I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.

Bill Parcells

#61. The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He's handing it out here and there, but he can't just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.

Bill Parcells

#62. NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

Satchel Paige

#63. I love that fact that Kayla actually persevered and went back to her sport," she said. "That's the role models. Sometimes, things like that happen and what do you do? Do you crumble with your life or do you go forward? Hee said she chose to go forward.

Dana Hee

#64. As your training integrates Mind, Body and Spirit, enjoy the process. Your journey to the marathon finish will last a few hours. Your journey to the start will influence a lifetime.

Gina Greenlee

#65. If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

Dick Vermeil

#66. I told you all I was going to be No. 1, and I did just that.

Usain Bolt

#67. As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.

Don Shula

#68. When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.

Dan Gable

#69. I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high.

Jose Bautista

#70. You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

Lou Gehrig

#71. This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.

Bill Parcells

#72. What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

Henry Ward Beecher

#73. During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Mickey Mantle

#74. We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Bill Walsh

#75. I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

Bill Parcells

#76. When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.

Sun Tzu

#77. Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

Lynn Jennings

#78. I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.

Bill Parcells

#79. It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

Willie Mays

#80. I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

Adolph Rupp

#81. The burn is my girlfriend, failure is my ex. I'm married to the track and engaged to success.

Andre Bramble

#82. I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.

Jonny Wilkinson

#83. 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

#84. Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Pat Summitt

#85. Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Jim Rohn

#86. Character is what you do when no one is watching.

Paul Rabil

#87. There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.

Bill Parcells

#88. If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into the world of work, that is going to be determined by how hard you are willing to work.

Robert Hughes

#89. Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

Mike Ditka

#90. I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is

Leisel Jones

#91. A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

Jim Valvano

#92. We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

Matt Holliday

#93. I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

Diana Nyad

#94. Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Ted Williams

#95. We're not playing solitaire out here.

Bill Parcells

#96. I miss all the shots I don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

#97. I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.

Noureddine Morceli

#98. One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.

Tiger Woods

#99. If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.

Olga Korbut

#100. You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

Jon Gruden