Sports Quotes

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

Tim Notke

"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."

Dan Gable

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

Tommy Lasorda

"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement."

Marv Levy

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

Pat Riley

"The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose."

Ernie Banks

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

Jack Dempsey

"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play."

Mike Singletary

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."

Bo Jackson

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears."

Laird Hamilton

"I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat."

Tom Landry

"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

Phil Jackson

"Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We."

Phil Jackson

"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do."

Derek Jeter

"You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards."

Arthur Ashe

"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost."

Martina Navratilova

"The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes."

Sepp Herberger

"Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win."

Gary Lineker

"If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing."

Bill Shankly

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

Mike Tyson

"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."

Muhammad Ali

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."

Muhammad Ali

"The only one who can tell you 'you can't win' is you and you don't have to listen."

Jessica Ennis-Hill