Motivational sports Quotes · Page 13

I love the game. It's fun to play, period. I love running around and getting sweaty. I love trying to lead my…

— Jamila Wideman

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your…

— Lou Gehrig

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the…

— Kevin Keegan

The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.

— Dave DeBusschere

If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the…

— Lou Holtz

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

— Lionel Messi

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.

— Lynn Jennings

The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field,…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

If there is a mutual respect between players and coaches, that keeps the team honest and makes for a very healthy environment…

— Jillian Ellis

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a…

— Andre Agassi

I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment…

— Althea Gibson

I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the…

— Ian Thorpe

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not…

— Katharine Whitehorn

When I got cut from the varsity team as a sophomore in high school, I learned something. I knew I never wanted…

— Michael Jordan

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do…

— Lyn St. James

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit…

— Sandy Koufax

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move…

— Kristi Yamaguchi

I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has…

— Libby Trickett

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to…

— Red Auerbach

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

— Darrell Royal

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

— Timothy Shriver

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

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

— Alistair Cooke

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

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

— Dolores LaChapelle

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

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

— Harvey Penick

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

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

— Mia Hamm

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

— Jim Leach

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened,…

— John McGraw

When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.

— Duffy Daugherty

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

— Duffy Daugherty

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

— Joe Frazier

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

— Knute Rockne