Motivational sports Quotes · Page 12

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

— Timothy Gallwey

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

— Vince Lombardi

With goals you can create the future in advance.

— Tony Robbins

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

— James Lane Allen

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

— Grete Waitz

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

— Bruce Lee

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

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

— Tom Landry

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

— Gary Neville

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

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

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

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

— Sally Quinn

It's never been easy. But I've always wanted to play hockey. I love hockey. I'd rather play hockey than do anything else.…

— Manon Rheaume

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch…

— David O. Russell

Everyone who has been to an Olympics says expect the unexpected. That kind of psychology games does go on, so I'm kind…

— Libby Trickett

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the…

— Steve Garvey

If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay,…

— Vince Lombardi

The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and…

— Eddie Reese

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is…

— Andrew Carnegie

I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best…

— Michael Phelps

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

— John Bentley

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

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Joe DiMaggio

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

— Wilma Rudolph

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

— Justine Henin

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

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

— Wayne Dyer

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

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

— Summer Sanders

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all…

— Jim Bouton

A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's…

— Darrell Royal

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for…

— Diana Nyad

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

— Michael Phelps

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

— Brian Tracy