Motivational Sports Quotes

#1. Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it. #Quote by Andre Agassi

#2. It ain't what you eat but how you chew it. #Quote by Delbert McClinton

#3. I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits. #Quote by Leisel Jones

#4. I don't believe the old statement, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." If that were the case, then Cadillacs and Jaguars and Mercedes would never make a change. I've always looked for ways to make things better. #Quote by Vic Bubas

#5. Character is what you do when no one is watching. #Quote by Paul Rabil

#6. Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology. #Quote by Vince Lombardi

#7. My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach. #Quote by Bill Parcells

#8. We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes. #Quote by Mike Tomlin

#9. I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't. #Quote by Caitlyn Jenner

#10. Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports. #Quote by Mia Hamm

#11. I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house. #Quote by Bill Parcells

#12. Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure. #Quote by Laozi

#13. Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that. #Quote by Dawn Fraser

#14. We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way. #Quote by Matt Holliday

#15. If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association? #Quote by Lou Holtz

#16. If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price. #Quote by Bud Wilkinson

#17. Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested. #Quote by Tom Kite

#18. You're going to feel good. But no matter how much you rehab you do, you can't speed up the healing process. I would rather see a guy come back in 14 months and pitch seven, eight or nine more years then come back in 10 months and get hurt again. You cannot mess with mother nature and father time. Nature will heal it if you give it time. #Quote by Tommy John

#19. Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be. #Quote by Mike Ditka

#20. If you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over #Quote by Gordon Attard

#21. Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat. #Quote by Jesse Ventura

#22. There are lies, damned lies and statistics. #Quote by Mark Twain

#23. If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills. #Quote by Bobby Unser

#24. Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. #Quote by Bo Jackson

#25. I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind. #Quote by Peyton Manning

#26. Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal. #Quote by Kerri Walsh

#27. Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. #Quote by Jose Mourinho

#28. Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team. #Quote by Dot Richardson

#29. People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away. #Quote by Jim Abbott

#30. I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes. #Quote by Humphry Davy

#31. Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural. #Quote by Willie Stargell

#32. Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand. #Quote by George Foreman

#33. I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it. #Quote by Bob Wickman

#34. Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers. #Quote by Pat Riley

#35. Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time. #Quote by Jon Krakauer

#36. In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game. #Quote by Hayden Fry

#37. I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important. #Quote by Justine Henin

#38. I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will. #Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger

#39. When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win. #Quote by Joe Frazier

#40. Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. #Quote by Mario Andretti

#41. We're not playing solitaire out here. #Quote by Bill Parcells

#42. There are a lot of guys who are respected but not liked. #Quote by Ron Santo

#43. Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration. #Quote by Johnny Miller

#44. The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters. - Cus D'Amato #Quote by Cus D'Amato

#45. Always think of passing the ball before shooting it. #Quote by John Wooden

#46. Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most. #Quote by Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#47. I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can ... There a few of them ... DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD ... whichever song really gets me going that night #Quote by Michael Phelps

#48. Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins. #Quote by Paul Brown

#49. Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all. #Quote by Ouida

#50. I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up. #Quote by Amy Ruley

#51. There is water in every lane, so it is OK. #Quote by Ian Thorpe

#52. I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today. #Quote by Mark Spitz

#53. Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind. #Quote by Bruce Lee

#54. I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge. #Quote by Greg Norman

#55. There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order. #Quote by Vince Lombardi

#56. Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. #Quote by John F. Kennedy

#57. Nobody's more important than the team. #Quote by Rejean Houle

#58. I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat. #Quote by Hank Aaron

#59. If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent. #Quote by Vince Lombardi

#60. There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' #Quote by Arthur Ashe

#61. Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy. #Quote by Dan Gable

#62. Concentration is born on the practice court ... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit. #Quote by Martina Navratilova

#63. Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself. #Quote by Casey Stengel

#64. I love that fact that Kayla actually persevered and went back to her sport," she said. "That's the role models. Sometimes, things like that happen and what do you do? Do you crumble with your life or do you go forward? Hee said she chose to go forward. #Quote by Dana Hee

#65. During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. #Quote by Mickey Mantle

#66. Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions. #Quote by Roddy Piper

#67. If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are. #Quote by Bear Bryant

#68. I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them. #Quote by Amanda Beard

#69. I love the game. It's fun to play, period. I love running around and getting sweaty. I love trying to lead my team. I love facing the challenge of another team that's better. #Quote by Jamila Wideman

#70. Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making. #Quote by Sugar Ray Leonard

#71. I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport. #Quote by Noureddine Morceli

#72. I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there. #Quote by Vince Lombardi

#73. Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment. #Quote by Bill Parcells

#74. People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you. #Quote by Ruben Studdard

#75. Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches. #Quote by Roberto Duran

#76. When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder. #Quote by Dan Gable

#77. His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips. #Quote by Joe Frazier

#78. Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know. #Quote by Anna Sewell

#79. Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. #Quote by Jim Rohn

#80. I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations. #Quote by John McEnroe

#81. When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury. #Quote by Fran Lebowitz

#82. I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved. #Quote by Ivan Lendl

#83. Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better. #Quote by Mario Lemieux

#84. I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision. #Quote by John Wooden

#85. My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport. #Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger

#86. I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. #Quote by Bob Hope

#87. Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. #Quote by Vince Lombardi

#88. As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there. #Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger

#89. People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. #Quote by Martina Navratilova

#90. Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. #Quote by Elgin Baylor

#91. I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat. #Quote by Darrell Royal

#92. Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. #Quote by Sylvester Stallone

#93. I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck. #Quote by Megan Jendrick

#94. Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life. #Quote by Howie Long

#95. We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. #Quote by Lee Trevino

#96. As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform. #Quote by Don Shula

#97. You have to have the mentality of executing your game when you don't feel like there's a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come together. #Quote by Andre Agassi

#98. To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right. #Quote by Don Meyer

#99. This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming. #Quote by Bill Parcells

#100. People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that. #Quote by Don Murray

#101. The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable. #Quote by Luis Figo

#102. They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother. #Quote by Lou Holtz

#103. Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time. #Quote by Mia Hamm

#104. Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else. #Quote by Bill Vaughan

#105. I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is #Quote by Leisel Jones

#106. Every passion has its destiny. #Quote by Billy Mills

#107. If my life was a movie, no one would believe it. #Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger

#108. Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me. #Quote by Cal Ripken, Jr.

#109. I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do #Quote by Summer Sanders

#110. My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. #Quote by Wilma Rudolph

#111. I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. #Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger

#112. I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me. #Quote by Jonny Wilkinson

#113. For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. #Quote by Aristotle.

#114. If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine. #Quote by Aaron Rodgers

#115. Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us. #Quote by Richard J. Corman

#116. It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen. #Quote by Jade Edmistone

#117. They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it. #Quote by Joe Kapp

#118. I am the person you'll see everyday training when everyone else has gone home. I live for the one moment of glory when I save that goal or sink that 3-point shot and score the winning basket. I am the sport, I am the glory, nothing can change that. I am an athlete, no one can forget that. #Quote by Alexa Wilkinson

#119. We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year. #Quote by Bill Walsh

#120. The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals. #Quote by Samantha Riley

#121. The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own. #Quote by Bill Bradley

#122. Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might. #Quote by Casey Stengel

#123. I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up #Quote by Michael Phelps

#124. We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things. #Quote by Steve Alford

#125. No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling. #Quote by Jim Leach

#126. Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. #Quote by Jim Valvano

#127. Always have a 'Plan C #Quote by Zoltan Andrejkovics

#128. The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He's handing it out here and there, but he can't just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him. #Quote by Bill Parcells

#129. Martial Arts does not teach you how to fight, it teaches you why not to. #Quote by Lakshya Bharadwaj

#130. If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. #Quote by Chuck Noll

#131. Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it. #Quote by Pat Riley

#132. I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot. #Quote by Usain Bolt

#133. The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person. #Quote by Matthew Syed

#134. If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer. #Quote by Yogi Berra

#135. Plane Ride -
In our sport it is natural and necessary to set up goals to inspire us. We all want to achieve the next level, the break-thru performance. What we (all of us) must not forget is that the journey to these goals is the best part. The daily process of obtaining success takes up the majority of our time and effort throughout our lives. Remember to appreciate what you've done in the past and what you are doing in the present on your way to higher goals. This will allow you to always strive for something more without missing out on the fact that your path to success is as much a starting point as it is a finish line. #Quote by Matthew Alan

#136. To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice. #Quote by Seve Ballesteros

#137. First master the fundamentals. #Quote by Larry Bird

#138. The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives. #Quote by Denis Waitley

#139. I was scared to death, but I made fear score points for me. Fear is right behind me, fear is six inches off my back, that's where fear is. I can feel its presence. But it's not going to catch me ... I'm going to take fear and use it to my advantage. #Quote by Bruce Jenner

#140. The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes have to use equipment, like a football. But I don't use anything in competition except myself. It's just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing. #Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger

#141. I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world. #Quote by Adolph Rupp

#142. Surpassing my achievements feels incredible; I want to replicate that again and again. #Quote by Katherine Reutter

#143. I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive. #Quote by Chrissie Wellington

#144. Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year. #Quote by Sparky Anderson

#145. There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again. #Quote by Vince Lombardi

#146. I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at? #Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger

#147. NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE. #Quote by Satchel Paige

#148. When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself. #Quote by Tony DiCicco

#149. You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?' #Quote by Joe DiMaggio

#150. What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have. #Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

#151. Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed. #Quote by Jim Valvano

#152. The future is much like the present, only longer. #Quote by Dan Quisenberry

#153. A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough. #Quote by Darrell Royal

#154. It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. #Quote by Charles Kettering

#155. Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices. #Quote by Seth Godin

#156. I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your dreams. And three is it looks like a solitary sport but it takes a team. #Quote by Diana Nyad

#157. It is how you show up at the showdown that counts. #Quote by Homer H. Norton

#158. You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant. #Quote by Carl Erskine

#159. The umpire ... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order. #Quote by Neville Cardus

#160. It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#161. The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal. #Quote by Francie Larrieu Smith

#162. It's hard to beat a person that never gives up. #Quote by Babe Ruth

#163. I don't think you're ever there. You never arrive, but if you do, you might as well quit because you're already there. Can't get any better. And as players, if you ever have that moment - you should never have that moment. You're always trying to get better. #Quote by Tiger Woods

#164. All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure. #Quote by Roger Staubach

#165. Have fun, because that's what life is all about. #Quote by Ryan Lochte

#166. The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title. #Quote by Thomas Hearns

#167. The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life. #Quote by Lou Holtz

#168. Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones. #Quote by Darrell Royal

#169. The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other. #Quote by Darrell Royal

#170. One man cannot make a team. #Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#171. One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it. #Quote by Tiger Woods

#172. When you need a friend, you can always count on your teammates. #Quote by Jim Brown

#173. Before every shot, I go to the movies #Quote by Jack Nicklaus

#174. You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. #Quote by Lou Holtz

#175. The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge. #Quote by Arnold Palmer

#176. In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen. #Quote by Thierry Henry

#177. Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#178. When I got cut from the varsity team as a sophomore in high school, I learned something. I knew I never wanted to feel that bad again. I never wanted to have that taste in my mouth, that hole in my stomach. So I set a goal of becoming a starter on the varsity. #Quote by Michael Jordan

#179. Onstage I'm always different than offstage. I can be very friendly offstage, but onstage I will pull one trick after another on my competition to wipe him out, you know-because it's my living and I have to win. Franco is my best friend, but I will do as much as I can to make him look bad and make me look good. #Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger

#180. Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result. #Quote by Vince Lombardi

#181. It's never been easy. But I've always wanted to play hockey. I love hockey. I'd rather play hockey than do anything else. If you have that kind of desire, I think you can achieve what you want to achieve. #Quote by Manon Rheaume

#182. Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients. #Quote by Bill Parcells

#183. If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. #Quote by Dick Vermeil

#184. Channel your energy. Focus. #Quote by Carl Lewis

#185. On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. What the numbers are in salaries or statistics don't matter; how they play together does. #Quote by Red Holzman

#186. Falling and getting back up is what brings you success. #Quote by Tony Horton

#187. The most prepared are the most dedicated. #Quote by Raymond Berry

#188. In life, be a participant, not a spectator. #Quote by Lou Holtz

#189. It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are. #Quote by Billie Jean King

#190. The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. #Quote by Jean-Claude Killy

#191. When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. #Quote by Pat Riley

#192. What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. #Quote by Wendell Phillips

#193. The trick is growing up without growing old. #Quote by Casey Stengel

#194. Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. #Quote by Don Shula

#195. I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals. #Quote by Diana Nyad

#196. There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt. #Quote by Bill Parcells

#197. It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever. #Quote by James Koven

#198. I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches. #Quote by Harvey Penick

#199. The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it. #Quote by Bill Parcells

#200. The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique and training, but if he cannot win the confidence and comradeship of his pupils he will never be a good coach #Quote by Franz Stampfl

#201. Vishnu being thus manifest and unmanifest substance, spirit and time, sports like a playful boy. (Vishnu Purana 1.2) #Quote by Vishnu Purana

#202. I'm frozen in place as his eyes rake over me. #Quote by Collette West

#203. Children can see the beatitudes in nature. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#204. Being indifferent is an effective weapon against bossing. #Quote by Eraldo Banovac

#205. Get ready to take on the world from a position of personal power, strength, and intention! #Quote by Susan C. Young

#206. Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food. #Quote by Jim Rohn

#207. I've never forgotten a word of advice my father gave to me. 'Never lose sight of your dream,' he said 'Of that person you want to be. You can make it come true, No matter how high or how far, If all down the way In your living each day, You never forget who you are.' 'For the you-that-you-are this minute, this day; Is molding the you-that-will-be, And every action and thought and word is shaping its entity.' 'It's a good thing,' he said 'To look on ahead and fix your gaze on a star, if along the way in your living each day you never forget who you are. #Quote by Helen Lowrie Marshall

#208. Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things. #Quote by Bruce Barton

#209. When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. #Quote by Cristiano Ronaldo

#210. Let me say it again:
the present moment is all you ever have. #Quote by Eckhart Tolle

#211. God's power supersedes any power. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#212. Please, do keep digging your own grave. I look forward to your splendidly inevitable demise."
– Dread Emperor Benevolent the First #Quote by ErraticErrata

#213. Play every game as if it's your last one #Quote by Guy Lafleur

#214. If you're not the brightest or if you're not great at sports, or if you're not artistic, then you've got to find a way to make your mark; otherwise you're just this tiny little insignificant dot. I didn't want to be insignificant, so I made people laugh. #Quote by Sharon Horgan

#215. Always be excellent and you'll rise above the rest. #Quote by Todd Stocker

#216. Explore the infinite possibilities in existence. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#217. These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret. #Quote by Bar Refaeli

#218. All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret. #Quote by Dalai Lama

#219. It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control. #Quote by James Hansen

#220. If you think you can't, you won't. If you think you can, you will. #Quote by Linda Ward

#221. I'm probably the toughest (expletive) here. Ain't no
question about that with me. I'm the toughest guy
here ... I'm clean. I mean, I ain't got no marks on
me. I don't know nobody else who can say that
who came out of any sport. I ain't got no marks on
me, so I've got to be the baddest dude I know of. #Quote by Deacon Jones

#222. I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad. #Quote by Christopher Judge

#223. A weak, insecure nation needs sporting heroes, players larger than life on the cricketing field, who can transcend the limitations of their country and team. #Quote by Shashi Tharoor

#224. Creativity bleeds from the pen of inspiration. #Quote by T.N. Suarez

#225. Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood. #Quote by Julian Baggini

#226. The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before. #Quote by Jillian Michaels

#227. Take the chance! You can! #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#228. There are handful of moments in your life when you'll be challenged to choose between what you really want and what you believe is possible. These are the moments which will shape both your destiny AND who you will become. #Quote by Seth Czerepak

#229. Sometimes it is our mistakes that make us the best among men in the world. if we listen to the voices of the world, they speak not to degrade us but to encourage us to overcome that which we have been ultimately blessed with ... for what more could we lose if we never choose to overcome anything? I tell you that you are dead if you are foolish enough to not try. #Quote by Danish Sayanee

#230. I think Philly is arguably the best sports town - football town - in America. #Quote by Ron Jaworski

#231. I have lots of favorites movies. I say this only because it's a favorite movie because it's a sport I love. I'm a huge baseball fan. There are movies I like as much as this, but I sort of single this movie out because I'm a baseball nut, and that's 'Field of Dreams.' #Quote by Rick Santorum

#232. Wake up every morning with a good attitude because everyday that you open your eye's gives you another day to try again. #Quote by Alcurtis Turner

#233. I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean. #Quote by Michael Irvin