Short Sports Quotes

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

Rest if you must, but never quit.

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

You play with your soul as well as your body.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

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

If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

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

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

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