Motivational Sports Quotations

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

He who stops being better stops being good.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Ain't no chance if you dont take it.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

I'm not God, but I am something similar.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

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

Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.

I'll be back always sounded a little girly to me.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

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

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

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

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

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

I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Channel your energy. Focus.

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.