Motivational sports Quotes · Page 15

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the…

— Leisel Jones

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

— Mary Russell Mitford

He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

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

— Phil Jackson

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally…

— Roger Bannister

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.

— Gregg Troy

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

— Pat Summitt

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

— Larry Bird

“Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.”

— Wilma Rudolph

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of…

— Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that…

— Sid Gillman

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other…

— Gary Neville

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

— Tom Landry

I've always been fortunate in that I've been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I'm…

— Michael Phelps

I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.

— Darrell Royal

If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you…

— Kurt Warner

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

— Michael Phelps

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I…

— Ian Thorpe

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought,…

— John Bentley

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

— Sally Quinn

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without…

— Wilma Rudolph

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it…

— Joe DiMaggio

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

— Bill Vaughan

I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.

— Justine Henin

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body…

— Ian Thorpe

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

— Wayne Dyer

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

— John Madden

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

— Terry Orlick

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

— Mike Penner

It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

— Yogi Berra