Sports Quotes

Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.

- Roddy Piper

15

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

- Gail Devers

33

Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

- Mike Tyson

11

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

- Greg Maddux

19

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

- Saadi

5

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

- Benjamin Bloom

7

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

- Pat Summitt

8

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

- Fridtjof Nansen

6

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

- Robert Mugabe

11

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

- Clive James

4

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

- Abraham Lincoln

8

Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?

- Harry Caray

5

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

- Bill Bowerman

5

Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.

- Dan Gable

3

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

- Jesse Owens

6

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

- Phil Jackson

7

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be

- Tom Landry

12

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

13

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

- Stephen Curry

5

Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.

- Gabby Douglas

4

My heart is set. All goodly sport For my comfort Who shall me let?

- Henry VIII of England

4

There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.

- Nick Saban

4

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

- Dan Gable

7

Chance favors the prepared mind.

- Louis Pasteur

2

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

- Pele

4

The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

- Walt Disney

5

If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose

- Lee Chong Wei

2

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

- Eric Liddell

3

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

- Serena Williams

3

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

- Usain Bolt

6

Success is a project that's always under construction.

- Pat Summitt

3

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

- Cus D'Amato

9

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory.

- Eunice Kennedy Shriver

9

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

- Cus D'Amato

3

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

- Chuck Noll

7

Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.

- Jim Harbaugh

3

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

- Hunter S. Thompson

2

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

- Pele

8

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.

- Jack LaLanne

3

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

- Dan Gable

7

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

- Eric Cantona

4

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

- Billy Sunday

3

Everything you need is already inside.

- Bill Bowerman

1

Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

- Gino Bartali

5

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

- Muhammad Ali

3

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

- Pat Summitt

4

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

- Doc Rivers

3

BLOOD, SWEAT & RESPECT. First two you GIVE. Last one you EARN.

- Dwayne Johnson

3

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

- Tom Landry

5

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

- Laozi

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