Sports Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Athletes and Teams

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

- Gary Bettman

1

We knew that the two teams were not on the same level, so we just aimed to learn something from the world's top team.

- Xu Huaiwen

12

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

- Abhinav Bindra

4

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

- Manny Pacquiao

1

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

- Michael Phelps

4

I've been cycling ever since I was a kid. I remember taking my cycling proficiency test aged seven - I got to school at 7:30 A.M. to practise, I was so nervous. After that, I always cycled to school.

- Erin O'Connor

1

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

- Andy Murray

2

Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.

- Donald Stewart Cherry

1

I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.

- Saina Nehwal

3

Practice does NOT make perfect. Practice makes permanent. PERFECT practice makes perfect.

- Unknown

12

Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.

- Vince Lombardi

15

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

- Shaquille O'Neal

1

When you lose, you get up, you try again!

- Serena Williams

13

The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions

- Brad Stevens

1

Although it will be an intense affair, we will all have fun and, in the end, the sport of lacrosse will be victorious.

- Gavin Prout

7

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

- Guy Lafleur

2

It's not the will to win that matters — everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

- Paul Bear Bryant

8

No matter how good you get, you can always get better and that's the exciting part.

- Tiger Woods

9

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

3

I run, but boxing conditioning is different, so you have to get used to running in the ring. Boxing movements are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every single muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard at things that mimic boxing. I have to do mostly sport-specific training, such as lots of sparring.

- Wladimir Klitschko

2

In Europe, it's different – you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.

- Thomas Dooley

1

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.

- Larry Bird

8

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

- Wayne Gretzky

1

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.

- Will McDonough

6

I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of.

- Jimmy Connors

2

I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.

- SURESH RAINA

2

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

8

If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week.

- Bill Beaumont

1

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

- John Wooden

26

Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for four.

- Michael Kasprowicz

3

Rubgy may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.

- Unknown

1

You're always going to be criticized to a degree. Some people didn't like Mother Teresa as well.

- Brendon McCullum

5

A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

- Dan Gable

1

The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.

- Les Brown

6

Lacrosse is a space game, in terms of spreading the offense and running the fast break. You can't really get that in the gym. We got double the grass time that we've had up to this point.

- Bob Hiester

1

I like my hands. Which is lucky as I have to spend all day looking at them on the handle bars.

- David Millar

6

Your only limit is you.

- Unknown

1

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing

- Pele

12

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new

- Sugar Ray Leonard

9

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

- Summer Sanders

2

The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.

- Eddie Reese

2

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

- Charles Haley

3

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

- Yogi Berra

2

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

- Babe Ruth

9

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

- Stan Smith

18

The most important thing about being in wrestling is that you have to connect with the crowd, connect with the fans, and you either want them to love you, or to hate you. Either way, so long as they're reacting to what you're doing.

- Chris Jericho

1

Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything.

- Unknown

9

Choosing a tennis goal and sticking to it changes everything.

- Felicity Luckey

1

On female rugby teams – Everybody thinks we should have moustaches and hairy arses, but in fact you could put us all on the cover of Vogue.

- Helen Kirk

1

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.

- David O Russell

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