Sports Training Quotes

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

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

Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.

I run to see who has the most guts.

When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.

Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

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

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

There is no such thing as life in-between.

The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

You can't put a limit anything.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

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

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

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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

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.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

It is not the critic who counts

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

If you think you can't, you're right.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.