Motivational Sports Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old motivational sports quotes, motivational sports sayings, and motivational sports proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you. Yogi Berra
Tonight is not about the past and it's not about the future. It's about right now. And you guys have gotta want this night to last forever. Billy Donovan
It's not about talent. It's about heart. It's about who can go out there and play the hardest. They're not gonna give you anything. So you gotta go out there and you gotta take it. Josh Lucus
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your talent, there is only one way to obtain it-work. Jack Nicklaus
The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. Vince Lombardi
Nobody has seen form. It's a state of mind where you are confident and you think very positively and everything you think about, It's about how you treat the mind. M S Dhoni
Confidence is very important – even pretending to be Confident. If you make a Mistake but do not let your Opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the Mistake. Viswanathan Anand
Hard work, will power & dedication. For a man with these qualities, sky is the limit. Milkha Singh
Winners never quit and quitters never win. Sports do not build character. They reveal it. Heywood Broun
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Michael Jordan
I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. Muhammed Ali
Even when you've played the game of your life, it's the feeling of teamwork that you'll remember. You'll forget the plays, the shots, and the scores, but you'll never forget your teammates. Deborah Miller Palmore
Pain is only temporary but victory is forever. Jeremy H
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. Steve Young
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. Michael Phelps
I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning. Gregg Troy
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. Pele
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. Emil Zatopek
If there is a dream or a goal that you want you have to go for it 100%. Give all you have for the goals that you have. Alia Atkinson
It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today. Nathan Adrian