Quotes on Motivational Sports

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

With goals you can create the future in advance.

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes have to use equipment, like a football. But I don't use anything in competition except myself. It's just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

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

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

In war there is no substitute for victory.