Famous Sports Quotes

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  You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.
  Arthur Ashe


• Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision.
  Muhammad Ali


• We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
  Vince Lombardi


• I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures.
  Earl Warren


• I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
  Shaquille O'Neal


• Victory belongs to the most persevering.
  Napoleon


• Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
  Pele


• Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
  Bill Shankly


• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
  Chris Evert


• There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional. This is sheer intensity.
  Jack Nicklaus


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


• The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.
  Brian Sipe


• Champions keep playing until they get it right.
  Billie Jean King


• If only Hitler and Mussolini could have a good game of bowls once a week at Geneva, I feel that Europe would not be as troubled as it is.
  R.G. Briscow


• When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
  Katarina Witt


• Doctors and scientists said that 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.
  Roger Bannister (After becoming the 1st person to break the four-minute mile in 1952)





• My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win....Channel your energy. Focus.
  Carl Lewis


• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
  Chris Evert


• Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
  Lou Holtz


• I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out." Parents have to take better control.
  Charles Barkley


• When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.
  Michael Jordan


• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
  Martina Navratilova


• The more I practice, the luckier I get.
  Jerry Barber


• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
  Muhammad Ali


• I'll let the racket do the talking.
  John McEnroe


• When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.
  Chris Evert


• Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.
  Bud Wilkinson


• My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.
  Tiger Woods


• Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
  Winston Churchill

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