Sports Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Athletes and Teams

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying

- Greg LeMond

5

I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slope style skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.

- Nick Goepper

1

The toughest problem for us as giants is finding someone that we can work with and wrestle

- Big Show

7

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.

- Roberto Clemente

3

Discipline is the bridge between your tennis goals and tennis success.

- Felicity Luckey

2

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

- Tommy Lasorda

3

All successes begin with Self-Discipline

- Dwayne Johnson

9

You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you.

- Rohit Sharma

9

The goalie. Lacrosse's unsung hero. Keeper of the net. Last line of defense. A player whose contribution never shows up on the scoreboard at the end of a game.

- Dana Czapnik

5

There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do

- Derek Jeter

1

Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.

- Dr. Bob Rotella

3

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

- Marianne Vos

1

Rowing is more than a fast boat on race day. It's a complementary experience to a young man's intellectual development. Rowing, like success, is a journey, not a destination. I tell my oarsmen to have fun, learn, and most of all grow as individuals. The wins the losses will take care of themselves.

- Rick Clothier

3

Great athletes recognize the difference between can't and unwilling to.

- Greg Everett

1

I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.

- Ric Charlesworth

3

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

- Evander Holyfield

1

Don't let success go to your head and don't let failure go to your heart.

- Lindy Barber

1

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

- Lou Holtz

3

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her.

- Mia Hamm

2

Be thankful for what you are now. And keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.

- Unknown

6

It is the life-affirming genius of baseball that the short can pummel the tall, the rotund can make fools of the sleek, and no matter how far down you find yourself in the bottom of the ninth you can always pull out a miracle.

- Bill Vaughn

3

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

- Joe Namath

7

Keep practicing. Never let somebody tell you that you're too small or too slow

- Chris Paul

2

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

- Steve Nash

2

You don't play against opponents; you play against the game of basketball

- Bob Knight

2

When the opponent plays the stroke that you are not good at, don't think too much, just hit the ball back

- Li Xiaoxia

9

Coaches shouldn't have to push you to work hard, you should push yourself to work hard because you want to be a great player

- Bob Knight

2

You have to be willing to fail to improve.

- AL Scates

4

You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves

- Phil Jackson

7

Always reward effort and good things will follow

- George Veves

3

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

- Brad stevens

2

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

- G.K. Chesterton

1

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them. But do not let them master you.

- Hellen Keller

5

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot, but it wasn't love because my first love was tennis.

- Boris Becker

2

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

- Lance Armstrong

1

I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.

- Amy Sedaris

2

I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'

- Larry the Cable Guy

3

Life is like a game of soccer. You need goals. If there are no goals in your life then you can't win

- Unknown

12

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

- Eduardo Galeano

2

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

- Earl Weaver

1

Do not fear what you cannot lift, fear that which can lift you.

- Uziel Matos Lima

2

All the talent in the world won't take you anywhere without your teammates.

- Unknown

12

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

- Saina Nehwal

3

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

- George Mikes

10

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood

- Thomas Boswell

3

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

- Bob Knight

1

I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly

- Greg Chappell

7

Think?! How are you supposed to think and hit at the same time.

- Yogi Berra

12

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

- Kerri Walsh Jennings

3

Everything about me is favored towards wrestling

- Roman Reigns

4

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