Sports Victory Quotes

#1. For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.

Meghan Daum

#2. There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

Dan Gable

#3. I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise ... it's a consistent reward for victory!

Sasha Azevedo

#4. Victory with honor and integrity is the real goal of sport. Sometimes it happens that others are better than you. I could never beat Carl Lewis in a hundred-yard dash, but my victory might be in running faster today than I did yesterday.

Don Sparks

#5. It's a huge challenge for us to get the (43) car back to Victory Lane, to get the car in the Chase, to get back to where I would love to see us win the championship, ... Is it a reality next year You've seen a lot of things happen in the sport and you look at it and ask 'How'd that happen'

Robbie Loomis

#6. Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Bo Jackson

#7. I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

Tom Osborne

#8. No one's ever come up with a universal color scheme for the apocalypse, and if ours wanted to come in neon and peppermint stripe, well. That was okay.

Mira Grant

#9. In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

Eric Liddell

#10. I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Earl Warren

#11. The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Aristotle.

#12. No man who really is a man ever cared for the easy task. There is no enjoyment in the game that is easily won. It is that in which you have to strain every muscle and sinew to achieve victory that provides real joy.

Eric Liddell

#13. I pray not for victory, but to do my best.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

#14. Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Max Euwe

#15. Cast yourself. You are the spell.

T. Thorn Coyle

#16. People ask me what makes a great skier. It takes the gift; but besides the gift it takes all the availability of mind which permit total control of all the elements that lead to victory. - total composure.

Jean-Claude Killy

#17. 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

#18. In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Winning does not always mean coming in first ... real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

Apolo Ohno

#20. Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Thomas Jefferson

#21. Forget to criticize, but never forget to enjoy criticism.

Debasish Mridha

#22. It's amazing how two thin pieces of clothing can hold such deep memories. Laughter, pain, victory, defeat, friendship, fatigue, elation ... they're all there, but only to the person who's worn the uniform

Wendelin Van Draanen

#23. Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat.

John Kessel

#24. Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

Bill Bowerman

#25. The thrill of victory in business blows away the thrill of victory in sports. Business is a sport 24/7/365.

Mark Cuban

#26. A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat ... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.

Bill Bradley

#27. Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

Vicente Del Bosque

#28. Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

Zig Ziglar

#29. It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory.

Andre Bramble