Motivational sports Quotes · Page 14

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

— Paul Brown

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

— Chris Evert

My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

— Pat Riley

I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because…

— Mike Krzyzewski

I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.

— Rob Lee

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

— Pat Riley

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out…

— Florence Griffith Joyner

We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.

— Joseph Hagerty

She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's…

— Frank Carroll

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want…

— Greg Norman

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

— Jim Abbott

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

— Joe Paterno

The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.

— Lawrence Dallaglio

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

— Julius Erving

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

— Chuck Noll

No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.

— Phil Jackson

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

— Jim Valvano

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a…

— Pat Summitt

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

— Olga Korbut

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which…

— Anonymous

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

— Don Shula

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

— Ray Knight

They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a…

— Joe Kapp

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

— Tony DiCicco

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

— John Donne

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

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

— Harvey Penick

We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the…

— Vince Lombardi

The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

— Dolores LaChapelle

If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be…

— Meredith Rainey-Valmon

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

— Alistair Cooke

There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

— Darrell Royal

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me,…

— John Daly

The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of…

— Timothy Shriver

Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

— Bruce Pearl

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

— Muhammad Ali

Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when…

— Jim Courier