Sports motivational quotes

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
- Confucius

Go hard or go home.
- Nike

You don't get it by wishing.
- Nike

No one ever drowned in sweat.
- U.S. Marine Corps

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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 won't be worth a dime.
- Babe Ruth

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
- Roger Kahn

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give it up. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football. And I have 20-20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.
- Jay Leno

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

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
- Emil Zatopek

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
- Tommy Lasorda

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
- Sergei Bubka

One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
- Tiger Woods

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
- Bruce Lee

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
- Bruce Lee

They call you lucky, but they have no idea how hard you worked.

If you get tired learn to rest, not to quit.