Sports Quotes: Inspirational Sayings and Hard Core Sports Quotes

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

The sports quotes below are for diehard fans. You will find a mix of inspirational quotations with a few hardline truths about what it's like to be a professional coach or player.

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Inspirational Sports Quotes

"Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the ‘me’ for the ‘we.’"

~Phil Jackson~

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  Great Sports Quote 
  Learning how to win is half the battle, learning how to deal with losing is the other.
  
  
  I thought of this sports quote after we lost our first football ...

  Advice to an Athlete 
  Train like you're in second. Play like you're in first.

  Fight 
  I'm a fighter and fighters always win.

  Sports Quote about Teamwork 
  An athlete who plays team sports cannot win a game by himself. Being part of the TEAM is how it's done. Rather than focusing on personal glory, a true ...

  What an athlete lives for. 
  People don't play sports because its fun. Ask any athlete, most of them hate it, but they couldn't imagine their life without it. Its part of them, the ...

  Frustrating walk in life 
  I am sitting here thinking what to tell my youth football team today for a positive message before the game and this came to my mind. "If you feel like ...

  Baseball Quote I Live By! 
  Baseball Quote : It's not where you start, but where you end up and knowing what you have to do to get there.
  
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  As a Native American ...

  Inspirational Sports Quote: Prove Someone Wrong 
  Inspirational Sports Quote
  
  I have a coach who thought I was a good for nothing football player who just played basketball to stay in shape. So he barely ...

  Mindset of a Champion  Not rated yet
  Mindset of a Champion
  
  A champion is someone who gets up even when they think they can't.

  Inspiring Sports Quotes  Not rated yet
  
  Inspiring Sports Quotes
  
  "The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours."
  
  ~ Peggy Fleming
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  Game Time Emotions  Not rated yet
  Walking through the tunnel onto that ice in game seven, I have a million thoughts running through my head. It doesn't matter that my girl is being a bitch,...

  Running Quotes  Not rated yet
  Running Quotes
  
  You aren't a loser until you quit.
  
  Fight to the finish.
  
  You have to want to run. Crave it. Need it.
  
  ~Me
  
  I will run when I ...

  Sports Quotes - My 3 W's  Not rated yet
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  In Sports and Business...
  
  "work" "will" and "win"
  
  This is the mantra that will bring you success!

  Inspirational Sports Quote  Not rated yet
  Pain is temporary, quitting is forever.

  Desire to Win  Not rated yet
  The desire to win is that passion that fuels a champion.

  The Athlete  Not rated yet
  The athlete who never gives up is the one who is ultimately a winner.

  Athletes and Egos  Not rated yet
  In order for a team to be successful, its players must leave their egos at home, and change the ME to WE.
  
  The varsity baseball team I play on is filled ...

  Insightful Sports Quote  Not rated yet
  You can't win a game by yourself, but you can lose one.

  Rocky Movie Quote  Not rated yet
  "It's not about how hard you hit, it's how hard you can get hit and keep getting back up."
  
  ~ Rocky
  
  
  I'm a teenage female boxer and this quote motivates ...

  Boxing  Not rated yet
  Flesh blood, two hands and a heart beat, fear nothing. For the spirit of christ dwells in me.AMEN
  
  I have the spirit of Christ in me. ROM:8-9
  The spirit ...

  Learn to Fight  Not rated yet
  Learn to fight, for he is not a man if he can't fight for what he wants.

  Success Reflects Character  Not rated yet
  Your success reflects your character.
  
  Don't say you're going to do it, do it and say you did it.
  
  Never quit, do the job and finish it with all your ...

  Sports Potential Quote  Not rated yet
  To realize you have potential in sports is to realize you can achieve skill.

  Coach-able  Not rated yet
  Perhaps the greatest thing to ever be told is that you are coach-able.
  

  Liverpool Sports Quote  Not rated yet
  Cut my veins and I bleed Liverpool Red.
  
  -Steven Gerrard (captain of Liverpool and midfielder of England)

  Practice  Not rated yet
  Perfect practice makes practice perfect.

  Sports Quote: Practice as you play, and play as you practice!  Not rated yet
  I just love this sports quote it's great

  Running  Not rated yet
  Running is like coffee...
  it keeps you focused,
  keeps you energized,
  and best of all, it's addicting!
  
  

  Football Quote 51  Not rated yet
  Winning isn't everything ... it is the only thing.

  True Champions  Not rated yet
  True champions aren't the ones who always win, but the ones with the most guts.
  
  ~Mia Hamm

  Tonya McGregor  Not rated yet
  A great team puts in a great effort.

  Championship Character  Not rated yet
  This sports quote is on the back of the cross country t shirts at my school, and I thought it was an amazing quotation.
  
  "Champions do not become champions ...

  Quote for Athletes  Not rated yet
  "Remember: When you're not training, someone out there is, and when you meet them, they will beat you."

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  Best sports quote:
  
  "Play every game like it's your last."
  
  That really just means to me that I don't say "Oh I have a game coming up next week, I'...

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  Great Sports Quote:
  
  We didn't lose that game, we just ran out of time.
  
  I am a die-hard Philadelphia Eagles fan and during the 2007-2008 season when ...

  Inspiration Sports Quote: A Winner  Not rated yet
  "A winner is someone who recognizes the talent that they received at birth, works as hard as he can to turn that talent into skill, and uses that skill ...

  Inspirational Sports Quote  Not rated yet
  "The road to success is always under construction."

  Inspirational Sports Quote  Not rated yet
  "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
  
  -Steve Prefontaine
  
  
  Learn how to adopt the physiology of excellence and accelerate ...

  Rugby Quote  Not rated yet
  Rugby is a beast game played by gentleman.
  The object is to "kill" the opposing team, then buy them drinks after the game is over.
  
  
  Learn how to adopt ...

  What teamwork really is  Not rated yet
  Sacrificing the "me" for "we".
  
  
  
  
  Learn how to adopt the physiology of excellence and enhance your success in all you do from school to sports ...

  Great Sports Quote - Failure is not a Factor  Not rated yet
  I made up this quote because I am an athlete and I love playing sports. I thought it was very inspiring and motivational. Go Big or Go Home!
  
  
  Adopt ...

  Sports Quotation - Worth  Not rated yet
  It isn't worth winning if you don't have to fight for it.
  
  
  
  

  Best Sports Quote Ever  Not rated yet
  Being second is being the first loser.
  
  I've been in second place my whole life (and never first) until last year when I've been winning everything ...

  Great Sports Quote  Not rated yet
  Players who work might not play in the first game, but will play in the last.
  
  Living the dream like everyone else.

  My Sports Quotes   Not rated yet
  Putting over 1000 hours of practice prepares you for that ONE moment, in that ONE situation, in that ONE game.
  
  It's one thing to be physically tough;...

  you always miss 100% of the shots you don't take  Not rated yet
  it means that you will never make a shot if you're not confident enough to take it.
  
  

  Sports Quote: Amazing Things Can Happen But Teams Have to Work  Not rated yet
  "Amazing things can happen, but teams have to work." Our Parker School Bulls team is good, we just don't recognize our full potential. See we were faced ...

  Sports Quotation  Not rated yet
  Attack everyday with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

  High School Track Runners  Not rated yet
  My coach once told me the most important thing of my track career ... If you have several people telling you your freshman and sophomore year that you ...

  
  
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