Motivational Sports Quotes

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Well done is better than well said.

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

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Good is not good when better is expected.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

He who stops being better stops being good.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

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

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

Sport is a preserver of health.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

Politics is a blood sport.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

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

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.