INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES Series....
Inspirational Sports Quotes
Here's a collection of inspirational sports quotes from some of the greatest athletes in their respective sports. Although these quotes are listed under each sport, each quote serves as inspiration for not only sports...but how to best approach our lives, challenges, defeats and wins!
Tennis
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
CHRIS EVERT
You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.
STEFFI GRAF
Baseball
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it thirty-six years and I'm used to it.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
CASEY STENGEL
Golf
It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
You must play boldly to win.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
ARNOLD PALMER
Formula 1 Motor Racing
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
DAMON HILL
Basketball
You have to expect things of yourselves before you can do them.
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be agressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.
I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed.
MICHAEL JORDAN
Boxing
Float like a butterfly sting like a bee.
MUHAMMED ALI
Track & Field
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful will win.
ROGER BANNISTER
Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.
STEVE PREFONTAINE
