Sports Motivational Quotes

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Following is a good variety of sports motivational quotes you can use for motivation and inspiration.

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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. ~ Michael Jordan

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~ John Wooden

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. ~ John Madden

One chance is all you need. ~ Jesse Owens

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer. ~ Larry Bird

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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates. ~ Magic Johnson

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. ~ Michael Jordan

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.~ Vince Lombardi

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. ~ Vince Lombardi

Fatigue makes cowards of us all. ~ Vince Lombardi

If you can accept losing, you can't win. ~ Vince Lombardi

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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again. ~ Pat Riley

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

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn. ~ Tom Landry

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything. ~ Venus Williams

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.~ Larry Bird

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. ~ John Madden

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. ~ John Wooden

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. ~ Michael Jordan

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. ~ Michael Jordan

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players. ~ Larry Bird

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. ~ Vince Lombardi

It ain't over till it's over. ~ Yogi Berra

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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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ~ John Wooden

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes. ~ John Wooden

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. ~ Phil Jackson

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

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now. ~ Magic Johnson

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better. ~ Magic Johnson

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. ~ Michael Jordan

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I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. ~ Michael Jordan

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. ~ Pat Riley

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. ~ Michael Jordan

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that. ~ Tiger Woods

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home. ~ Venus Williams

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. ~ Michael Jordan

You can always become better. ~ Tiger Woods

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The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. ~ Julius Irving

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead. ~ Chuck Noll

The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing. ~ Chuck Noll

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

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. ~ Pat Riley

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

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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. ~ Lance Armstrong

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ~ Muhammad Ali

Discipline is not a nasty word. ~ Pat Riley

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it. ~ Pat Riley

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. ~ Wayne Gretzky

I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions. ~ Bear Bryant

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job. ~ Tom Landry

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's rights for them and their family. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

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