Sports Quotes

"You have to be able to accept failure to get better."

"Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates."

Magic Johnson

"The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play."

Bill Russell

"Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice."

Stephen Curry

"Life is about timing."

Carl Lewis

"Mind is everything. Muscle – pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."

Paavo Nurmi

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

Jim Ryun

"I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

Michael Phelps

"He can run, but he can't hide."

Joe Louis

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."

Wayne Gretzky

"No matter how good you get, you can always get better, and that's the exciting part."

Tiger Woods

"The most important shot in golf is the next one."

Ben Hogan

"Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course, the space between your ears."

Bobby Jones

"Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

Lou Gehrig

"Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth."

Roberto Clemente

"My motto was always to keep swinging."

Hank Aaron

"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

Jackie Robinson

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it."

Knute Rockne

"For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes – not that you won or lost – but how you played the Game."

Grantland Rice

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is war minus the shooting."

George Orwell

"Citius, Altius, Fortius. (Faster, Higher, Stronger.)"

Henri Didon

"Losing is not my enemy. Fear of losing is my enemy."

Rafael Nadal

"I fear no one, but respect everyone."

Roger Federer

"Only the disciplined ones in life are free."

Eliud Kipchoge