Great Inspirational Sports Quotes For Athletes And Fans

by allinspiration.com

Here are some fantastic inspirational sports quotes and sayings for both athletes and sports lovers alike. To inspire, to excite, to enthuse, to encourage, and to rouse them.

“There are no gains without pains.”
– Adlai Stevenson

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
– Albert Einstein

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.”
– Albert Einstein

“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
– Albert Einstein

“Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.”
– Anonymous

“If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few.”
– Anonymous

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle

“You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.”
– Arthur Ashe

“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
– Author Unknown

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
– Babe Ruth

“There is no education like adversity.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Things that hurt, instruct.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.”
– Bill Bernbach

“Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.”
– Bill Vaughn

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
– Billie Jean King

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.”
– Bono

“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
– Booker T. Washington

“You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.”
– Bud Wilkinson

“If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.”
– Bud Wilkinson

“You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.”
– Bud Wilkinson

“Most ball games are lost, not won.”
– Casey Stengel

“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”
– Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

“If you sacrifice early, you’ll win late.”
– Charles Haley

“You can’t make a great play unless you do it first in practice.”
– Chuck Noll

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.”
– Conrad Hilton

“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
– Corneille

“Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative.”
– Dan Frisby

“Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.”
– Dan Stanford

“It ain’t what you eat but how you chew it.”
– Delbert McClinton

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”
– Dennis P. Kimbro

“Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.”
– Dr Phil

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
– Dr. Denis Waitley

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”
– Dr. Joyce Brothers

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.”
– Dr. Michael Norwood

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