Quotes on Motivational Sports

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. What the numbers are in salaries or statistics don't matter; how they play together does.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?