Best 72 quotes in «motivational sports quotes» category

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

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

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself.

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

All sports are games of inches.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

He who stops being better stops being good.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.