Motivational Quotes for Athletes

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

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden

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

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
John Wooden

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

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi

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

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

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali

“Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”
Plutarch

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
Francis of Assisi

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'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

If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.
Bud Wilkinson

Just go out there and do what you have to do.
Martina Navratilova

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
Walter Elliott

Let your workings remain a mystery.
Just show people the results.
Lao Tzu

“As you think, so shall you become.”
 Bruce Lee quote

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
 Bruce Lee quote

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
 Bruce Lee quote

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
Henry Ford

“You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.”
Charles C. Noble

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

“Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.”
Lance Armstrong

You can always become better.
Tiger Woods

Do not speak defeat, speak victory.
Joel Osteen

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.
Tony Robbins

Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction
Unknown

“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.”
H. Ross Perot

You can't make a great play unless you do it first in practice.
Chuck Noll

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”
Pele

“I think I've always had the shots. But in the past, I've suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I'm starting to get away from that and my mental discipline and commitment to the game are much better. I think I'm really taking a good look at the big picture. That's the difference between being around for the final or watching the final from my sofa at home.”
Andre Agassi

“Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.”
Andre Agassi

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.
Mark Spitz

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