Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 3

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. What the numbers are in salaries or statistics don't matter; how they play together does.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

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

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

The game isn't over till it's over.

Football is like life and I know life.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.