Best Great Inspirational Sports Quotes

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

A lion has to eat. Run with me or run from me.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

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

The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.

If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.

I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

If at first you don’t succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.