Famous Sports Quotes

These famous sports quotes range from wise to witty, so you can be sure to find just the words you're looking for!.

At one point in your life you either have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.
Andy Roddick

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers

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

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Jean Claude Killy

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
Chris Evert

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.
Sam Huff

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

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
George Leonard

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
George Shultz

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

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 wont be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
Venus Williams

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

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

Inspirational and Motivational Famous Sports Quotes

Love is playing every game as if it's your last.
Michael Jordan

Pain is only temporary but victory is forever.
Jeremy H.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.
Mia Hamm

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
Paul "Bear" Bryant

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.
Ron Blomberg

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

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Charlie Finley

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gale Sayers

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Coach Darrel Royal

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.
Carl Lewis

It's not the disability that defines you, it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. We have an obligation to the abilities we DO have, not the disability.
Jim Abbott


Funny and Famous Sports Quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't.
Muhammed Ali

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
Alberto Tomba

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into 3 unequal parts: anticipation, recollection, and between them, actual performance.
Arnold Gingrich

When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.
Duffy Daugherty

Doctors and scientists said that 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.
Roger Bannister (After breaking the four-minute mile for the first time in 1952)

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