Sports Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Athletes and Teams

A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime – and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived

- Ted Williams

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The only one who can beat me is me.

- Michael Johnson

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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.

- Sabine Baring-Gould

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In the Second Amendment, it's not about hunting, it's not about target shooting, it's about protecting your home and your family and your life.

- Ted Cruz

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I don't consider members of the federations to be my rivals. The world record is the rival I'm fighting.

- Lü Xiaojun

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I would be very proud if, one day, I'm held in the same esteem as George Best or David Beckham. It's what I'm working hard towards.

- Cristiano Ronaldo

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Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.

- John F Kennedy

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Everything I do I always feel very confident. Whether it's tennis, badminton, football, whatever. I just go out there and think I can do it and most of the time I can. What I'm good at I don't mind saying because it's not a secret, is it? For me, confidence is so important. It's good to know I can go out on the field and feel I can take on the world.

- Nicklas Bendtner

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Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

- Paul "Bear" Bryant

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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

- P.G. Wodehouse

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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

- Larry Bird

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I stand here on my own two feet, and I stand here defiant

- cm punk

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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

- Rohit Sharma

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It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.

- Roger Kahn

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I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

- John Wooden

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We're going to tear those boys apart.

- Will Carling

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A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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There's a first time for everything when I'm involved

- Shawn Michaels

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There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.

- Jim Brown

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Every guy I touch, it's the same result. When I land, it's like seeing one of those preachers on TV. When I touch them, they fall out.

- Deontay Wilder

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If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.

- Marvellous Marvin Hagler

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Skiing is always so huge, you need so many talents to be fast and be good at this sport

- Tina Maze

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There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.

- Usain Bolt

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Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?

- Frederick Carl Frieseke

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This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

- Michael Phelps

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Some guys play hockey. Gretzky plays 40 mph chess

- Lowell Cohn

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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

- Arthur Ashe

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Pass it better, set it higher, hit it harder, give it all you've got.

- Unknown

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When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

- Steffi Graf

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If you do something right the first time, then it's not hard enough.

- Danny MacAskill

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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

- Lance Armstrong

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No matter how hot the fire burns, a protea always survives.

- AB Devilliers

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For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

- Willie Mays

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You're a sum of all your experiences

- TOM THIBODEAU

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I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.

- Chris Brown

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I'm confident to win, I always have the confidence whenever I go into a tournament.

- Zhang Ning

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Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

- Dwayne Johnson

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We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now.

- Bruce Coslet

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There's way more pressure cooking for cooks than rowing at the Olympics.

- Bryan Volpenhein

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Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

- Grantland Rice

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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

- Ian Thorpe

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Unless somebody can pull a miracle out of the fire, Somerset are cruising into the semi-final.

- Fred Trueman

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Cycling isn't a game. It's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and requires great sacrifices.

- Jean de Gribaldy

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There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

- David Byrne

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We've lost seven of our last eight matches. Only team that we've beaten was Western Samoa. Good job we didn't play the whole of Samoa.

- Gareth Davies

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Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything

- Jack Nicklaus

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I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.

- Diego Maradona

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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

- Diane Ackerman

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Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.

- David James Duncan

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By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series.

- Steve Rushin

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