Best 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.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

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

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

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.

The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.

Give it everything you’ve got. Leave nothing out there.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

I still love what I do and I’ve done OK over the years … You’re a long time retired and anyway, I’d get bored.

I wasn’t aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited various communities throughout Victoria. To see the way that my people looked at me and to know that I made a difference to them was an honour.

I wasn’t born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

You’ve always got to be aware of why you don’t win; otherwise you’ll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won’t make the same mistake again.

I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don’t give up.

In hindsight everything is much clearer.

I’m just me – the way I am.

Running reminded me exactly who I am and what I am made of.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

I’ve achieved everything I ever wanted. I’ve done three Olympics, world championships, I’ve been around the world and made good friends. But I still have the inner drive to do more, to be not just good, but to be great.

Sent off, carried off, but never backed off.

He who stops being better stops being good.

Good is not good when better is expected.

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement

Please God, let me hit one. I’ll tell everybody you did it.

But I haven’t met a player or a coach whose goal isn’t to win the Super Bowl.

Let the smokers and the gluttons die… and leave the living to us who know how to use it.

If you want to do something, anything, with all your heart, you will find a way.

The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don’t stop watching the Tour de France. Maybe we should just turn off the television and get on our own bikes.

Sport has long occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians, and today the nation welcomes a new champion to the pantheon. Cadel Evans, cyclist extraordinaire.