Famous Sports Quotes
Famous sports quotes are a great source for inspiration. Use
these quotes for posters, handouts, and as pre game speech
starters. Sports quotes will inspire and motivate your
players to a higher level of performance...
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. - Joe Paterno
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. - Michael Jordan
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. - James Lane Allen
If you can't accept losing, you can't win. - Vince Lombardi
Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy. - Mark Will-Weber
If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. - M.H. Alderson
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is
a bunch of interested players. - Don Coryell
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. - Bo
Jackson
It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares
about who gets the credit. - Robert Yates
The game isn't over till it's over. - Yogi Berra
You miss 100% of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky
Once you're beat mentally, you might as well not even go to
the starting line. - Todd Williams
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of
excellence. - George F. Will
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. -
Satchel Paige
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had
better be ready to adapt. - Scotty Bowman
You are never a loser until you quit trying. - Mike Ditka
Champions do not become champions when they win the event,
but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend
preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is
merely the demonstration of their championship character. -
T. Alan Armstrong
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from
something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a
vision. - Muhammad Ali
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? - Joe Namath
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be -
in baseball and in life. - Pete Rose
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't
no man got to be common. - Satchel Paige
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is
tough, is being good every day. - Willie Mays
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard
to beat. - Herschel Walker
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting
challenges, and I believed in myself. - Muhammad Ali
The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I'm starting to
believe that. - Dan O'Brien
Nothing succeeds like success. - Proverb
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter
how bad it is, you can make it. - Gale Sayers
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I
tell myself: Get out of he blocks, run your race, stay
relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win....Channel your
energy. Focus. - Carl Lewis
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only
have control over what you do. - A J Kitt
If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it,
you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first,
to improve your performance, or just finish the race its up
to you. - Dave Scott
Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half. -
Bum Phillips
To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to,
something to motivate you, something to inspire you. - Tony
Dorsett
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each
other enough to surrender the ME for the WE. - Phil Jackson
Football is like life, it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for
authority. - Vince Lombardi
The difference between a successful person and others is not
a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a
lack of will. - Vince Lombardi
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't
no man got to be common. - Satchel Paige
You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when
you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good
to show some courage. - Joe Namath
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - Heywood
Hale Broun
The one nice thing about sports is that they prove men do
have emotions and are not afraid to show them. - Jane
O'Reilly
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince
Lombardi
A good coach will make his players see what they can be
rather than what they are. - Ara Parasheghian
My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.
That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try
to give back. If it works, it works. - Tiger Woods
Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is
coming, You gotta be ready to hit the curve. - Jaja Q
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You
may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the
world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be
worth a dime. - Babe Ruth
Champions keep playing until they get it right. - Billie
Jean King
The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't. - Todd
Blackledge
The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front
page nothing but their failures. - Justice Earl Warren
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what
makes a team work a company work, a society work, a
civilization work. - Vince Lombardi
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even
harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners
circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a
fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be
stacked in your favor. - Pat Riley
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. - Vince
Lombardi
I was told over and over again that I would never be
successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the
technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was
shrug and say "We'll just have to see". - Dick Fosbury
I believe the first step in any success-sports, work, a
service group, whatever-is showing up. - David DeNotaris
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost
almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the
game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and
over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael
Jordan
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about
self-improvement, about being better than you were the day
before. - Steve Young
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at
hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we
have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. -
Vince Lombardi
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're
either IN or you're OUT. There is no such thing as life
in-between. - Pat Riley
I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of
my unconditional confidence in their abilities. - John
Robinson
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be
willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the
team. - Bud Wilkinson
The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the
players identify areas to improve their game. - Byron &
Catherine Pulsifer, from What Does a Coach Do?
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the
things that endure. These qualities are so much more
important than the events that occur. - Vince Lombardi
I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't
have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it. -
John Daly
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical. - Yogi
Berra
There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. - Scotty
Bowman
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed
entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that
I didn't have a chance to win. - Arnold Palmer
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice
the whole meal you'll be sick. - George Leonard
All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win
consistently because everyone connected with them
concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their
business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from
achieving their aims. - Lou Holtz
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can
do for your teammates. - Magic Johnson
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical
ability, it was my mental ability. - Bruce Jenner
Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to
give 120 percent, somebody else will. - Ron Blomberg
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're
doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the
boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to
shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up
and starts putting his jacket on. - Lou Holtz
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is
important. - Bill Shoemaker
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will
determine what you become after the game, whether you are a
winner or a loser. - Lou Holtz
Other people may not have had high expectations for me...
but I had high expectations for myself. - Shannon Miller
The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last.
It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to
come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having
fun performing. - Jackie Joyner Kersee
If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to
pay a greater price. - Bud Wilkinson
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a
guy you can beat every time. - Lou Brock
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. -
Satchel Paige
If at first you don't succeed, you are running about
average. - M.H. Alderson
When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it
always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is,
I'm gonna prove you wrong. - Picabo Street
The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I'm starting to
believe that. - Dan O'Brien
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is
important. - Bill Shoemaker
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. -
Seneca
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You
may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the
world, but if they don't play together, the club wont be
worth a dime. - Babe Ruth
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the
day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to
the top. - O.J. Simpson
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is
a bunch of interested players. - Don Coryell
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even
harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners
circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a
fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be
stacked in your favor. - Pat Riley
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
- William A. Ward
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. - Charlie Finley
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only
have control over what you do. - A J Kitt
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of
the fight in the dog.
There's no substitute for guts. - Paul Bear Bryant
I really lack the words to compliment myself today. -
Alberto Tomba
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will
determine what you become after the game, whether you are a
winner or a loser. - Lou Holtz
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a
slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the
only thing to do was keep swinging. - Hank Aaron
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind,
confidence is the key to all the locks. - Joe Paterno
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is
vital. - Joe Paterno
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting
challenges, and I believed in myself. - Muhammad Ali
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by
striking true. - Honore de Balzac
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at
hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we
have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. -
Vince Lombardi
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do
them. - Michael Jordan
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can
do. - John Wooden
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard
to beat. - Herschel Walker
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do
if you lose, you have lost. - George Shultz
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the
techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you
have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter
of time. - Greg LeMond
To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to,
something to motivate you, something to inspire you. - Tony
Dorsett
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can
do for your teammates. - Magic Johnson
Set your goals high, and dont stop till you get there. - Bo
Jackson
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter
how bad it is, you can make it. - Gale Sayers
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies
in a mans determination. - Tommy Lasorda
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. -
Coach Darrel Royal
You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over
the edge. - Damon Runyon
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when
you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired. - Robert
Strauss
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. - Ronnie
Lott
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about
self-improvement, about being better than you were the day
before. - Steve Young
I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single
performance. I've never believed my critics or my
worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at
the arena. - Charles Barkley
What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He
loses his confidence. - Terry Bradshaw
Ain't no chance if you dont take it. - Guy Clark
In war there is no substitute for victory. - Douglas
MacArthur
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll
lose again, and then losing becomes a habit. - Joe Paterno
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than
others. That's the mark of a true professional. - Joe
Paterno
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely
nothing when it is absolutely necessary. - Ray Knight
To be prepared is half the victory. - Miguel Cervantes
The only place where success comes before work is in the
dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and
imitate a champion. - Jean-Claude Killy
Everyone has limits on the time they can devote to exercise,
and cross-training simply gives you the best return on your
investment balanced fitness with minimum injury risk and
maximum fun. - Paula Newby-Fraser
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence
of fear. - Mark Twain
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. -
Amelia Earhart
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it. - Chuck
Noll
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
The difference between a successful person and others is not
a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a
lack of will. - Vincent T. Lombardi
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I
tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay
relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win....Channel your
energy. Focus. - Carl Lewis
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I
will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their
waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done,
or what they can't do. - Dennis Waitley
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're
either IN or you're OUT. There is no such thing as life
in-between. - Pat Riley
The game isn't over till it's over. - Yogi Berra
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. - Bob
Richards, Pole Vaulter
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. -
John Wooden
I'll always be Number 1 to myself. - Moses Malone
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work,
the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration. - Thomas Edison
You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when
you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good
to show some courage. - Joe Namath
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one
who comes up on the short end. - Julius Erving
If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it,
you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first,
to improve your performance, or just finish the race its up
to you. - Dave Scott, Triathlete
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed
entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that
I didn't have a chance to win. - Arnold Palmer
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his
signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the
voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and
declaring that it has something to contribute to the
solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! -
Pat Riley
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. - Author unknown
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if
you just sit there. - Will Rogers
I will always be someone who wants to do better than others.
I love competition. - Jean-Claude Killy
Great works are performed not by strength but by
perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
Other people may not have had high expectations for me...
but I had high expectations for myself. - Shannon Miller
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical
ability, it was my mental ability. - Bruce Jenner
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And
leave one or two cards showing. - Van Morrison
He who stops being better stops being good. - Oliver
Cromwell