Quotes on Motivational Sports

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.

Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

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

All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

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.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

I told you all I was going to be No. 1, and I did just that.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from.