Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. — Benjamin Franklin
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game. — Tom Landry
The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be. — Tom Landry
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. — Vince Lombardi
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. — Pat Riley
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. — Jose Mourinho
motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot. — Jim Rohn
We have the mentality of the hunter. We want to be the most enthusiastic team in the country. That's what we can control — Shaka Smart
Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't. — Mike Ditka
Short Football Motivation Quotes
Fighting football, not serenity football - that is what I like. — Jurgen Klopp
Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. — Ernie Davis
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated. — Aristotle
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. — Brian Tracy
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. — Denis Waitley
Football Motivation Image Quotes
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. — Bud Wilkinson
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
American Football Motivational Quotes
Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic — Peyton Manning
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother. — Bo Jackson
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that! — Bill Parcells
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula
I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated — Emmitt Smith
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become. — Frosty Westering
Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts. — Jim Brown
Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. — Joe Namath
Football doesn't build character, it reveals character. — Marv Levy
Football Motivational Quotes
There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true. — Neymar
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers. — Merlin Olsen
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
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
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. — Duffy Daugherty
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. — Lionel Messi
It's never an upset if the so-called underdog has all along considered itself the better team. — Woody Hayes
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. — Kurt Warner
Football Team Motivation Quotes
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. — Jean-Paul Sartre
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. — Eduardo Galeano
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. — Dan Birdwell
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Every team is beatable, you never know. The right moment, the right time, every team is beatable. — Tom Coughlin
I work hard every day to try to help my team. I try to have fun too – because football is still fun – and scoring goals, breaking records, that’s what drives me. — Kylian Mbappe
The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the team concept completely, took the names off the back of the jerseys, checked the egos at the door. — Tom Coughlin
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. — Vince Lombardi
The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. — Vince Lombardi
A team that has character doesn't need stimulation. — Tom Landry
The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones. — Lou Holtz
Motivation To Win Quotes
In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be. — Greg Plitt
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
A little progress each day adds up to bg results.
Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal. — Kerri Walsh
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. — Wilma Rudolph
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone — Abdul Kalam
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player. — Jose Raul Capablanca
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose. — Ross Perot
Soccer Motivation Quotes
My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders. — Ronaldinho
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet. — Ronaldo
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life. — George Best
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I’ll be happy. — Kawhi Leonard
More than my dream it was my family’s dream that I play for India and they always supported me. — Smriti Mandhana
I’m in the team to score goals. I try and score as many as I can in the season to help the team out. — Harry Kane
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
I promise that we are going to win the league again. — John W. Henry
I’ve always been working hard on my speed for the last few years. Obviously I’m not slow, but as a striker, the more speed you have, the better you are. — Harry Kane
When I think of how special Anfield is and how special Liverpool is, everywhere around the world everyone is talking about Liverpool, it is because of the fan base. — John W. Henry
I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on. — Kawhi Leonard
Basketball Motivation Quotes
Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. — Stephen Curry
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it. — Stephen Curry
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
Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season. — Dan Gable
I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that. — Stephen Curry
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise — Michael Jordan
Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. — Magic Johnson
Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous. — Ben Feldman
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. — Mark Twain
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds? — Meredith Belbin
The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself. — Jocko Willink
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
Personal Motivation Quotes
Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money. — Christian Finnegan
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. — Frederick Herzberg
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry. — Hosea Ballou
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss
There are people who make things happen, there are people who
watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
things happen. — Jim Lovell
Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter. — Michael Oher
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela
Athlete Motivational Quotes
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
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell
When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder. — Dan Gable
When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it. — Lindsey Vonn
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. — Ross Perot
You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation. — Homer Rice
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great. — Billie Jean King
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. — Phil Jackson
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith
Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports. — Mia Hamm
I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. — Walter Payton
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. — E. M. Forster
If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits. — Richard Sherman
We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought. — Bobby Robson
Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation. — Landon Donovan
Football is my passion. — Didier Deschamps
Many clubs rejected me, but I wanted to be a footballer and to learn as quickly as possible, so I persisted until I got into Real Sociedad when I was 13. — Antoine Griezmann
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. — Chris Evert
Energy is everything, in life, in football and in sports. — Mikel Arteta
The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts. — Darrell Royal
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona. — Diego Maradona
Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win — Vinnie Jones
I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock. — Barry Venison
If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward. — Geoff Hickson
Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing. — Harry Kane
The ambition of this football club is very clear. You have to fight for trophies and be in Europe. The rest is not good enough. — Mikel Arteta
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. — Martina Navratilova
I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer. — Paul Pogba
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. — Don Francis
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