Quotes on Motivational Sports

If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

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

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.