You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
— Serena Williams
Revealing Greatest Sports quotations
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game.
Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters.
It's not the disability that defines you;
it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.
They are who we thought they were!
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.
Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.
This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
In baseball, you can't kill the clock.
You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Becoming involved in sports and traveling the world and seeing how people of color were treated around the world, and America being such a great nation, probably the greatest nation in the world, I think that the thing that would destroy this nation more than anything is the inequality that we have amongst people of color.
The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don't think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.
In life and in sports we know that nothing lasts forever.
The same year the greatest physical gift (football) the Lord gave me was taken away from me, I was blessed with the greatest gift any of us could have in two beautiful children. I’d take that trade every day of the week.
The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series.
If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.
Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.
There is no such thing as life in-between.
Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant. But that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.
I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed.
I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.
Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game.
..One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.
Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure.
I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.
