Browsing Topic Best Inspirational Sports Quotes

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

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.

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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

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

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

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

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

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

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit.

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

Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

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

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.

Winning does not always mean coming in first…real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you’ve gone all out.

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.

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

It’s a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

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

Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

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

Running is all about having the desire to train and persevere until every fiber in your legs, mind, and heart is turned to steel. And when you’ve finally forged hard enough, you will have become the best runner you can be. And that’s all that you can ask for.

If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can’t swim.

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

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.

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