Sports Quotes

"There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it."

Roger Federer

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."

Bill Shankly

"Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is."

Johan Cruyff

"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching."

Mia Hamm

"It ain't over till it's over."

"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

Jackie Robinson

"Sport has the power to change the world."

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle."

Pierre de Coubertin

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

Lou Holtz

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit."

Wilma Rudolph

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

"If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon."

Emil Zátopek

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

Muhammad Ali

"If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver."

Ayrton Senna

"The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration, then more practice and more concentration."

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win."

Nadia Comăneci

"I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all."

Simone Biles

"No human is limited."

Eliud Kipchoge

"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it."

"Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable."