Memorable Sports Quotes
January 14, 2008 1 Comment
Here is a list of favorite sports quotes….
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.
Vince Lombardi
Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hittin.
Yogi Berra
All I want out life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, “There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.”
Ted Williams
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
Alberto Tomba
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou Holtz
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or
have trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno
We must either find a way or make one.
Hannibal
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring experience is a matter of time.
Greg LeMond
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
Magic Johnson
Set your goals high and don’t stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Darrel Royal
If you believe it, the mind can achieve it.
Ronnie Lott
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Tom Landry
It is not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice.
Eric Lindros
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Jean-Claude Killy
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Lou Brock
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player
You cannot be successful without passion. If you don’t love what you’re doing, if you don’t have passion for it – forget it. Do something else. You’ll be much more successful and you’ll lead a lot happier life.
Donald Trump
The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.
George Schultz
The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Mike Ditka
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Eddie Robinson
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel de Montaigne
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn’t going to win any more games by being anything else.
Earl Weaver
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Triumph is just try with a little umph added.
Unknown
It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don’t like to do.
Albert Gray
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
If I am doing bad in a game or just plane mad that we are losing I just think of who or what has made me mad in the past and just pretend that, that person or thing was here to see me show them what I cam really do!