One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible. — Lance Armstrong
Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can. — Grete Waitz
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. — Bill Russell
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. — Bill Bowerman
As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are. — Tom Brady
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. — Mia Hamm
When people are inspired, they achieve more than they ever thought possible. — Michael Abrashoff
The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled. — Bill Toomey
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
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day. — Phil Knight
I may not be the lithest, the most talented, or have the fastest time in the field, but I have passion and courage, and sometimes that is enough to do something extraordinary. — Lauren Fleshman
A runner must run with dreams in his heart. — Emil Zatopek
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. — Emil Zatopek
When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same. — Demi Lovato
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. — Ross Perot
Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside. — Brett Favre
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. — Bill Shoemaker
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me. — George A. Sheehan
The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move. — John Wooden
This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows. — Olga Korbut
We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten? — Vance Havner
Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us. — Richard J. Corman
Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships. — Franz Stampfl
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. — Ross Perot
Athlete Motivational Quotes
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell
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
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
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. — Magic Johnson
When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it. — Lindsey Vonn
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
Great Athlete Quotes
I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion. — Idi Amin
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that. — Jerry West
The potential for greatness lives within us all. — Wilma Rudolph
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
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith
You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours. — Herb Brooks
Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it. — Mary Lou Retton
Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way. — Jim Courier
I always set my ambitions very high. You want to be the greatest athlete, but I realized that life is not about that. I was a little bit blind. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi
Motivate Athletes Quotes
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. — Phil Jackson
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
I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done. — Tom Osborne
I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate? — Mario Balotelli
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. — Babe Ruth
Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone. — Jim Brown
Have fun, because that's what life is all about. — Ryan Lochte
Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement. — Matt Biondi
I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I’ve always been an athlete at heart. — Vivica Fox
Athlete Quotes
Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is. — Fidel Castro
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition. — John Smith
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. — Muhammad Ali
A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that — Dan Gable
The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish. — Adrian Rogers
The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. — Lou Holtz
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. — Aristotle
I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women. — Billie Jean King
Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive. — Serena Williams
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. — Jesse Owens
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. — Alan Watts
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality. — Adi Shankara
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. — Saint Augustine
Good Athlete Quotes
Being pretty good at everything is more important than excelling in one pursuit. Be an athlete of life. — Peter Attia
You may have read that humans are the best endurance athletes. It's not true. We're only good in the heat, thanks to how we cool ourselves. Sled dogs are—by far—the greatest endurance athletes in the mammal kingdom. And their stats are insane. — Michael Easter
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts. — Roger Staubach
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. — Don Coryell
Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.' — Bill Bowerman
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. — Major Taylor
Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, 'You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to those who are watching. — Cory Snyder
One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top. — Bob Richards
I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do. — Wilford Brimley
Everything good in life requires good sleep: good relationships, good mood, good athletic or academic performance, good mental health…I’d go so far as to say that good sleep is the foundation for getting anything you want in life. — Mark Burhenne
Inspirational Student Quotes
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way. — Howard Gardner
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. — William Arthur Ward
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. — Brian Tracy
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. — Abraham Lincoln
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck. — Abdul Kalam
Learning is never done without errors and defeat. — Vladimir Lenin
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. — Nikos Kazantzakis
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone — Abdul Kalam
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball. — Mickey Mantle
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. — Satchel Paige
There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us. — Grete Waitz
The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am. — George A. Sheehan
It's all about the journey, not the outcome. — Carl Lewis
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. — Clara Hughes
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. — Chris Evert
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life. — Pete Rose
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding. — Jim Valvano
It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. — Muhammad Ali
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body. — Lynn Jennings
You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. — Junior Seau
The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres. — Steve Ovett
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. — Bill Shoemaker
The more I practice, the luckier I get. — Jerry Barber
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