140+ Ultimate Motivational Quotes For Athletes

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Ultimate Motivational Quotes For Athletes

• Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you will do it.
• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali
• Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
• Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. – Satchel Paige
• Champions keep playing until they get it right. — Billie Jean King
• It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. – Muhammad Ali
• A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
• Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.
• When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.
• You are your only limit.
• The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.
• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. – Bruce Jenner
• If at first you don’t succeed, try doing what your coach told you to do the first time.
• Champions don’t show up to get everything they want; they show up to give everything they have.
• Champions believe in themselves, even when no one else does.
• When you feel like stopping think about why you started.
• Look in the mirror, that’s your competition.
• Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. – Michael Jordan
• Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. – Magic Johnson
• 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
• Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won. – Billy Bowerman
• The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. – Les Brown
• Winners focus on winning.
• Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. – Michael Jordan
• The sweat. The time. The devotion. It pays off.
• Train like an athlete, eat like a nutritionist, sleep like a baby, win like a champion.
• If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat. – Herschel Walker
• Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.
• The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose. – Ernie Banks
• If you win through bad sportsmanship, that’s no real victory.
• No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
• Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. – Muhammad Ali
• A champion is someone who gets up, even he can’t. – Jack Dempsey
• Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.
• A champion is afraid of losing everyone else is afraid of winning. – Billie Jean King
• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up the most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
• I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated. – Emmitt Smith
• If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. – Ronnie Lott
• Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement. – Matt Biondi
• It’s hard to beat a person who never give up. – Babe Ruth
• Good players inspire themselves; great players inspire others.
• Don’t give up just because of what someone said. Use that as motivation to push harder.
• Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. – Muhammed Ali
• Don’t think about the start of the race think about the ending. – Usain Bolt
• Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.
• Don’t be afraid of being a beginner.
• Success trains. Failure complains.
• I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
• If your mind tells your body to stop, you will stop. Train your mind first and enslave your body to do it.
• People complain professional sportsmen are locked away, but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go. – Will Carling
• Excuses don’t get results.
• The road to athletic greatness is not marked by perfection, but the ability to constantly overcome adversity and failure.
• Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi
• Everyone has the desire to win, but only champions have the desire to prepare.
• I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.
• Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. – Stephen Curry
• Hockey players have fire in their hearts and ice in their veins.
• Everyone loses; its how you come back from those loses that define you.
• To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are. – Muhammed Ali
• I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
• Those who stay will be champions.
• Sports is life with the volume turned up. – Barry Mano
• Never throw in the towel. Use it to wipe off the sweat. Then keep going.
• The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you’ve come.
• Don’t let a win get to your head or a loss to your heart.
• You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
• Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. – Arnold Palmer
• Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. – Dean Karnazes
• It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. – Paul Bryant
• Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.
• Attitude is a little thing that makes big difference between football success and football – failure. – Felicity Luckey
• Rugby players with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.
• Winners never quit and quitters never win.
• Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
• Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
• We have to have the mentality that we have to work for everything we’re going to get. – Stephen Curry
• Basketball isn’t just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.
• Every day when I get on the floor I give it my all, because you never know what tomorrow holds. – Russell Westbrook
• Be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don’t have to live anybody else’s story.
• I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail. – Michael Jordan
• Look like a beauty, train like a beast.
• Hard days are the best, because that’s when champions are made. – Gabrielle Douglas
• Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. – John Wooden
• If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win. – Carl Lewis
• Start unknown finish unforgettable.
• Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission. – Zig Zaglar
• Winners are not people who fail, but people who never quit.
• What you do when nobody is watching is what separates a champion from everybody else.
• It doesn’t matter if you win or lose, it’s how you play the game
• Success isn’t given. It’s earned on the track, on the field, in the gym. With blood, sweat and the occasional tear.
• It is not how big you are it is how big you play.
• I’m not competing with somebody else, I’m competing with what I’m capable of. – Michael Jordan
• Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. – George Halas
• It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi
• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. – Sandy Koufax
• If you can’t outplay them, outwork them. – Ben Hogan
• Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. – Lou Holtz
• Make each day your masterpiece. – John Wooden
• If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all? – Joe Namath
• What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. – Andre Agassi
• If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful! – Charles Barkley
• You’re never a loser until you quit trying. – Mike Ditka
• It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. – Evander Holyfield
• To give any less than your best is to sacrifice a gift. – Steve Prefontaine
• It’s all about the journey, not the outcome. – Carl Lewis
• If you push me towards a weakness, I will turn that weakness into a strength. – Michael Jordan
• Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. – Magic Johnson
• Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature. – Bobby Knight
• Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.– Jim Valvano
• Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.– Satchel Paige
• Do you know what my favourite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.– Mike Singletary
• The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. – Pele
• If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters. – Michael Owen
• It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there. – Mia Hamm
• 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.
• This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows. – Olga Korbut
• Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet. – Edwin Moses
• Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like muscles of the body.
• An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. – Emil Zatopek
• What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
• You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy. – Arthur Ashe
• You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.
• Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.
• Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one’s character.
• Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication. – Michael Diamond
• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. – Bruce Jenner
• A trophy carries dust, memories last forever. – Mary Lou Retton
• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it. – Knute Rockne
• The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. – Ken Doherty
• When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge. – Terry Bradshaw
• Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
• If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average. – M.H. Alderson
• Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential. – Liane Cardes
• You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours. – Herb Brooks
• When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less.
• Most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside. – Brett Favre
• Win if you can, lose if you must, but never quit! – Cameron Trammell
• Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
• What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. – Dean Smith
• Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
• You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. – Michael Phelps
• Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong
• Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. – Phil Jackson
• Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
• Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. – Dan Gable

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