Inspirational Sports Sayings

Below you will find a collection of inspirational sports sayings from some of the greatest people in the history of sport. These people achieved greatness and helped others do the same by acting upon the words they spoke and believed. You can do the same by following the lead of these great men and women. Further, you can create a greatness of your own by leading others to higher levels of achievement. It all starts with your thoughts and ends with your actions.

 

 

Muhammad Ali

"I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was."

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"Don't count the days, make the days count."

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"Champions are made of something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision."

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Ron Bloomberg

"Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will."

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Ben Hogan

"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."

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Lou Holtz

"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today."

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"You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him."

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Michael Jordan

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

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"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

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"I've failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

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Billie Jean King

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

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Vince Lombardi

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."

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"Winners never quit and quitters never win."

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"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."

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"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work."

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"Build for your team a feeling of oneness of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity."

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Elaine Maxwell

"My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the keys to my destiny."

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Jerry Rice

"Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't."

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Jackie Robinson

"A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives."

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Knute Rockne

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."

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William Arthur Ward

"Adversity causes some men to break faces; others to break records."

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John Wooden

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

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"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."

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"Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."

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