Sports Motivational Quotes

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"The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time."-- Vince Lombardi

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." - George Herman "Babe" Ruth

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"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting." -- Dick Vermeil

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." -- Vince Lombardi

"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it." --Wayne Gretzky Canadian Hockey Player

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

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -- John Wooden

"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up." -- Vince Lombardi

"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win--if you don't, you won't." -- Bruce Jenner, Olympic Gold Medalist, Decathlon

"Don't give up at half-time. Concentrate on winning the second half." -- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

"There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between." -- Pat Riley

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation.Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden

"Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there." -- Venus Williams

"The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move." -- John Wooden

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." George Halas 1895-1983, Pro Football Coach

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." -- Vincent T. Lombardi

"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that." -- Bill Shankly

"The man who has no imagination has no wings." -- Muhammad Ali

"I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline... I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious." -- Vince Lombardi

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. -- Vince Lombardi