Inspirational Sports Quotes to Motivate and Transform Your Game

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing. – Pelé

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi

The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose. – Ernie Banks

Sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent. – Sue Wicks

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. – Vince Lombardi

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. – Michael Jordan

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. – Pelé

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. – Heywood Broun

The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. – Les Brown

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun

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

Inspirational Sports Quotes to Motivate and Transform Your Game part 2

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life. – Billie Jean King

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth

Set goals, push yourself, don’t quit, believe in yourself, ignore the naysayers, work hard, and never give up. – Mia Hamm

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. – Albert Einstein

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. – Michael Phelps

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. – Paul Brown

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. – Joe Paterno

Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Jackson

The strongest are those who win battles we know nothing about. – Unknown

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. – Mia Hamm

I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. – Tom Landry

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it. – Lou Holtz

It’s not about the size of the dog in the fight; it’s about the size of the fight in the dog. – Archie Griffin

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Lou Holtz

Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. – William Arthur Ward

Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Jackson

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. – Mia Hamm

The only limitations one has are the ones they place on themselves. – Muhammad Ali

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose! – Steven Gerrard

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. – Ronnie Lott

It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference. – Paul Bear Bryant

Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it. – Unknown

It’s not about being the best. It’s about being better than you were yesterday. – Unknown

The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow. – Unknown

Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong. – Unknown