Inspirational Sports Quotes

So many people along the way, whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can’t be done. But all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach.
- Michael Phelps

I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.
- Yogi Berra

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
- Andre Agassi

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
- Muhammad Ali

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.
- Rocky Balboa

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
- Charles Barkley

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
- Satchel Paige

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
- Derek Jeter

I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.
- Michael Jordan

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.
- Pat Riley

I don’t count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.
- Muhammad Ali

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

It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.
- Paul Bryant

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.
- Evander Holyfield

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
- Jack Dempsey

During my 18 years, I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
- Mickey Mantle

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.
- Shaquille O’Neal

Success isn’t final, failure isn’t fatal, it’s courage that counts.
- Alicia Coutts

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. Arnold Palmer
- Arnold Palmer