Sports Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Athletes and Teams

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

- Wayne Gretzky

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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning

- Billie Jean King

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The people united will never be defeated

- Julio César Chávez

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You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.

- Oscar Robertson

1

If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough.

- Unknown

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Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

- JOHN THORN

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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

Never give up on something you can't live a day without thinking about.

- Unknown

7

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

- Vince Lombardi

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You don't train to picture yourself second place on the podium. Second place sucks.

- Mat Fraser

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A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

- Sonny Liston

1

Nobody in Rugby should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

- Jono Gibbs

1

Skiing is the only sport where you spend and arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg

- Unknown

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Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theatre, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

- Al Lopez

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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

- Don Meyer

1

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

- Evander Holyfield

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One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, then you have a core group of people. Not just a core group like your homies or your buddies, but a group of people that has a good influence on you, who you respect and admire.

- Hope Solo

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Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

- Joel Edgerton

1

Players that learn the value of hard work, commitment, teamwork, and sacrifice are the ones that make their teams great

- Tom Crean

4

My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.

- Eric Bana

1

When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

- Rob Sheffield

1

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

- Johan Cruyff

2

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton...

- Annie Proulx

2

I try to keep fit, as it's better for both skiing and plastering

- Eddie the Eagle

7

I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.

- Edward Witten

4

The three important elements of hockey are: forecheck, backcheck and pay check.

- Gil Perreault

1

I'd rather be a hard worker who never wins than a winner who never works hard.

- Greg Everett

1

You don't win or lose the games because of the 11 you select. You win or lose with that those 11 do on the field.

- Rahul Dravid

14

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

- Brooks Robinson

2

I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed

- Michael Jordan

2

You will go through tough times, it's about getting through them.

- David Beckham

6

I did tennis for a while, I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.

- Kacey Musgraves

1

Don Chew is the owner of the Orange County Badminton Club, the location where I train. He played badminton when he was young and always had the passion for it. He never made it at the international level, but he wanted to give back to the sport. The majority of the elite players train at Orange County Badminton Club.

- Howard Bach

2

I've been big ever since I was little.

- William ‘The Refrigerator’ Perry

3

Worrying about things you can't control is a waste both on the baseball field and in life

- Tom Swyers

2

I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

- Patrick Rafter

1

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

- Wayne Gretzky

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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special

- Jim Valvano

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Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

- Vince Lombardi

4

Throwing your racket would not make you any better

- Unknown

2

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

- Raymond Floyd

1

A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

- Briana Scurry

10

I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.

- Kevin Durant

2

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

- Rohit Sharma

11

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

- David Millar

1

If it was easy, everyone would do it, it's the hard that makes it great.

- Unknown

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When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their rackets and fiddle around. Check out how the racket was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.

- Saina Nehwal

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As soon as I started to realise that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

- Abby Wambach

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Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

- Ray Lewis

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One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days,but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

- Unknown

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