Sports Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Athletes and Teams

The only Pain in Rugby is Regret

- Unknown

3

Fresh snow is amazing. The board is real different... it floats on the powder and goes really fast. If you're riding a long board, it's more like surfing than skiing

- Adam Yauch

11

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

- Martina Navratilova

3

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

If you have the ball you must make the field as big as possible. If you don't have the ball you must make it as small as possible

- Johan Cruyff

12

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

- Michael Jordan

19

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.

- Tana Umaga

7

Be so good they can't ignore you.

- Steve Martin

2

We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually

- Gregg Popovich

1

What you believe won't change what is; but it will change what can be.

- Greg Everett

1

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

- Phyliss Diller

1

A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

- Jim Bouton

3

Football is the ballet of the masses.

- Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich

6

Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practiced.

- Anupam Kher

1

I play each point like my life depends on it.

- Rafael Nadal

2

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one. But sometimes it's not so bad.

- Lindsey Vonn

2

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

- Winston S. Churchill

2

The will to win is more important than the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore, I am. Keep your head high and work hard every day, because you'll never get that day back.

- Lloy Ball

2

Good players want to be coached… Great players want to be told the truth

- Doc Rivers

1

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

- Grantland Rice

4

It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.

- Samantha Stosur

1

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

If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough.

- Steve Jones

8

Don't count laps. Make every lap counts.

- Unknown

1

If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing.

- Kyle Rote, Jr.

10

In badminton, they use a lot from the wrist. But I use a lot from the shoulder.

- Li Na

12

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

- Thomas Boswell

3

Work in silence, let success be your noise.

- Frank Ocean

3

I am an ordinary person, it just happens that I have a special job

- Zhang Jike

2

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

- Tom Hiddleston

1

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

- Earl Weaver

1

Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.

- Yuvraj Singh

2

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

- Sean Connery

2

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity

- Bill Veeck

4

In the sport of track and field, one of the best way to win is to run each race like it is already your last race.

- Unknown

6

Rugby is not like tea, which is good only in England, with English water and English milk. On the contrary, rugby would be better, frankly, if it were made in a Twickenham pot and warmed up in a Pyrenean cauldron.

- Dennis LaLanne

1

We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side. We'll eventually get batted back again, of course, unless libertarians can manage to do something about it. If your principal concern, like mine, is freedom, there's absolutely no discernible difference between the two 'majors,' and for all practical purposes, they're one big party the Boot On Your Neck party pretending to be two.

- L.Neil Smith

2

You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

- Andre Agassi

2

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid

- Evander Holyfield

8

Everything becomes possible in your life. When you take responsibility for everything that happens. You are the hero in this story and nobody is coming to save you.

- Unknown

19

It's not what you tell them, it’s what they hear

- Red Auerbach

4

Show me an undefeated fighter and I'll show a guy who's never fought anybody.

- Whitey Bimstein

2

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

- Vince Lombardi

2

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

- Unknown

5

One-day cricket is an exhibition. Test cricket is an examination.

- Henry Blofeld

4

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

- Hank Aaron

2

Wrestling is such a competitive sport worldwide.

- Kurt Angle

3

In rowing I found a sport that demanded some skill, granted, but placed a much higher premium on plain hard work and persistence.

- Harry Parker

6

A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do so you can be who you've always wanted to be.

- Unknown

7

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

- Emma Watson

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