Great Sports Quotes

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"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing" - Vince Lombardi

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -John Wooden

"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost." - George Shultz

"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." -William A. Ward

"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat." - Herschel Walker

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." -Charlie Finley

"You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do." - A J Kitt

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." -Archie Griffen

"There's no substitute for guts." -Paul Bryant

"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser." -Lou Holtz

"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks." - Joe Paterno

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital." -Joe Paterno

"We must either find a way or make one." -Hannibal

"It's a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself." -Muhammad Ali

"To succeed... You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you." -Tony Dorsett

"Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates." -Magic Johnson

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." -Bo Jackson

"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it." -Gale Sayers

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

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." -Coach Darrel Royal

"You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge." --Damon Runyan

"If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it." -Ronnie Lott

"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." -Tom Landry

"Winners never quit and quitters never win." -Unknown

"It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts, it's the what you put into the practice." -Eric Lindros

"Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time." -Lou Brock

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." -Vince Lombardi.

"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

"The game isn't over till it's over." -Yogi Berra

"Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles." -Bob Richards

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." -Thomas Jefferson

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky

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

"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do." - Dennis Waitley

"The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves."- Anonymous

"A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for." -Anonymous

"Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big." -Anonymous

"You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage." -Joe Namath.

"Winning isn't everything, wanting to is." -Anonymous

"Winners never quit and quitters never win." -Unknown

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." -Samuel Jackson

"Other people may not have had high expectations in me...but I had high expectations in myself." - Shannon Miller

"I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability." -Bruce Jenner

"He who stops being better stops being good." -Oliver Cromwell

"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before." -Steve Young

"A winner never whines." -Paul Brown

"Ain't no chance if you don't take it." -Guy Clark

"In war, there is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur

"When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!" -Pat Riley

"You have to perform at a consistently high level than others. That's the mark of a true professional." -Joe Paterno

"To be prepared is half the victory." -Miguel Cervantes

"Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth." -Archimedes

"The only way to avoid failure is to never try anything new." -Unknown

"Of course it's hard. It's supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great." -From A League of Their Own