Top 100 Quotes About Sports Success
#1. Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.
Stan Smith
#2. You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.
Alonzo Mourning
#3. For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.
Elle Macpherson
#4. Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Lou Holtz
#5. Falling and getting back up is what brings you success.
Tony Horton
#6. Sports movies had brainwashed me into the belief that when the chips are down the most, that is when success is the most inevitable.
Mindy Kaling
#7. Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity.
Graham Lowe
#8. Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.
Brian Kilmeade
#9. Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.
Mariah Burton Nelson
#10. If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.
Mark Cuban
#12. Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.
Richard Attias
#13. Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life ... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.
Joe Kapp
#14. It is a responsibility to be who you are and not let this sport [racing] change you and not let the good runs and success or the bad runs change you. You've got to be the same person all the time.
Trevor Bayne
#15. The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
Pat Summitt
#16. I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.
Tony Dungy
#19. What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?
Brian Tracy
#20. There are times when you're tired and times when you don't believe in yourself. That's when you have to stick it out and draw on the confidence that you have deep down beneath all the doubts and worries.
Jim Abbott
#21. If you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!
Tiger Woods
#22. Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.
Will Carling
#23. Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.
Pat Summitt
#24. Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.
Jim Harbaugh
#25. Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unser
#26. I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928 ... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.
Max Schmeling
#27. It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. ( ... ) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.
David Millar
#28. The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people's sports lore.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#29. Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
James E. Rogers
#30. Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.
Tim McCarver
#31. Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
Pat Summitt
#32. It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success.
Anthony Famiglietti
#33. I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.
Tiki Barber
#34. A lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Bill Shankly
#35. Today, we have many ways of defining success in life. Some define it as being a sports hero, others as being wealthy, others as being popular and well liked, and still others as being happy. How does God define success? He defines it as being spiritually mature!
Dr. Todd M. Fink
#36. Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.
Bill Bradley
#37. Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. Success comes from fun.
Shawn Johnson
#38. If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.
Nastia Liukin
#39. I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
Michael Jordan
#40. The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices.
Edward Bok
#41. Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
Felix Dennis
#42. Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.
Nicola Sturgeon
#43. In my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.
Joe Torre
#44. Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.
Bruce Pearl
#46. Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.
Terry Bradshaw
#47. I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.
Edward Kennedy
#48. Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head.
Jonathan Franzen
#49. Working in network news is not a solitary pursuit; it is the ultimate 'team sport,' in which success is derived from the collective performances of remarkable people united in purpose and dedication.
Steve Capus
#50. It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.
Gail Devers
#51. But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.
Bob Cousy
#52. There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.
Bill Murray
#53. Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.
Shashi Tharoor
#54. I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.
Willie Wilson
#56. Success is a project that's always under construction.
Pat Summitt
#57. Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
Pierre De Coubertin
#58. Always believe in yourself and never give up because you don't know what success could be right around the corner.
Jamie Hampton
#59. I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.
Vince Lombardi
#60. Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront.
Sachin Tendulkar
#61. It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
Roger Goodell
#62. Our success at friendship, business, sports, love
indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt
is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#63. Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.
Dan Millman
#64. To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
Ian Botham
#65. That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.
Nick Willis
#66. Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.
Roy Baumeister
#68. The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
Thomas A. Edison
#69. It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.
Steve James
#70. My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp.
Dan Pearce
#71. If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.
Madonna Ciccone
#72. You expect success, you respect failure.
Greg Norman
#73. Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.
Ron Brown
#74. A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.
David Brier
#76. I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.
Frederick Lenz
#77. Everyone has to try to give back as much as possible because I think in all sports it helps kids to have role models or people to look up to. Someone like Jess Ennis, I know a lot of young girls have started to get into athletics stuff because of her, because of her success.
Andy Murray
#79. Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#80. Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
Donald Johanson
#81. Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.
Ricky Williams
#82. What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
Rahul Dravid
#83. Why should we not shep naches from the accomplishments of our machines? This vicarious joy or success sounds somewhat odd, but it shouldn't be. We get excited when our sports team wins a game; why should it disturb or disappoint us when our creations turn out to be more accomplished than ourselves?
China Mieville
#84. If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.
Bruce Fordyce
#85. The burn is my girlfriend, failure is my ex. I'm married to the track and engaged to success.
Andre Bramble
#86. When I was 15, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After 15 years, I've found the secret to success is hard work.
Margaret Groos
#87. In the contest between talent and hard work as to which is the more important element of success, there's no comparison. A mediocre talent with lots of hard work will go further than a stellar talent who coasts.
David Joyner
#88. Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.
Joe Torre
#89. Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.
Danny Villanueva
#90. The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.
Jozy Altidore
#92. Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.
Emma Stone
#93. Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.
Richard Attias
#94. We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.
Alan Cohen
#95. The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.
Arie De Geus
#96. Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.
Richard Attias
#97. There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.
Bobby Orr
#98. Positioning yourself and effective branding should not be left to sports and movie stars. Your need a personal coach, manager or mentor otherwise your expertise, skills or talent will not go far. You might have what it takes but sometimes you lack strategy and some finer elements.
Archibald Marwizi
#100. It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.
Harvey MacKay
