Best Youth Sports Quotes

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

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

Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

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

We’ve got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there’s a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it’s about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We’ve always had a good relationship with our kids. You’re driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It’s not for every family.

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

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

Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

I’m hearing in youth sports where you’re not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody’s gotta get a trophy. I mean, that’s ridiculous. If you’re a winner, you’re a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don’t get anything.

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

Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven’t got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.

You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.