Inspirational Quotes For Athletes – Sayings To Inspire Sports Excellence

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Inspirational Quotes For Athletes – Sayings To Inspire Sports Excellence


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

“Fans never fall asleep at our games because they’re afraid they might get hit with a pass.”
– George Raveling

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

“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.”
– H. Ross Perot

“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. ”
– Hank Aaron

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
Henry Ford

“If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.”
– Herschel Walker

“The game is too long, the season is too long and the players are too long.”
– Jack Dolph

“It’s great to win, but it’s also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.”
– Jack Nicklaus

“The medals don’t mean anything and the glory doesn’t last. It’s all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing. ”
– Jackie Joyner Kersee

“You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. ”
– James Lane Allen

“Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.”
– Jameson Frank

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

“In the th inning you can’t hear the roar of the th. All you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.”
– Jim Abbott

“Do not speak defeat, speak victory.”
– Joel Osteen

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is just what people say you are.”
– John Wooden

Discipline of others isn’t punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.”
– John Wooden

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John Wooden

“I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.”
– John Wooden

“The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.”
– John Wooden

“It isn’t what you do, but how you do it.”
– John Wooden

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.”
– John Wooden

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
– John Wooden

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John Wooden

“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. ”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce

“When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.”
– Katarina Witt

“Leaders are like eagles… they don’t flock. You’ll find them one at a time.”
– Knute Rockne

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
– Lance Armstrong

“Everybody wants to know what I’m on. What am I on? I’m on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?”
– Lance Armstrong

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