Sports Quotes

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be

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

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

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.

Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

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

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

My heart is set. All goodly sport For my comfort Who shall me let?

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

I'm gonna say it one more time. We are Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. We call ourselves the Bald Eagles. We call our offense the Georgia Power Companyand that's a terrific name for an offense. Our snap count is 'rate, hike.' We practice on the banks of Beautiful Eagle Creek and that's in Statesboro, Georgia-the gnat capital of America. Our weekends begin on Thursday. The co-eds outnumber the men 3 to 2. They're all good looking and they're all rich. And folks, you just can't beat that and you just can't beat Georgia Southern. And you ain't seen nothin yet!

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with men in the streets, offices, professions, factories, sports, and now even in political and military life, is one of those dissolutive phenomena in which, in most cases, it is difficult to perceive anything positive. In essence, all this is simply the renunciation of the woman's right to be a woman.

School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.

During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.