Famous Athletic Quotes

Are you searching for an inspirational quote to rise to the top of your game?  Words are such a powerful tool for motivation and have a unique way of bringing a message of hope and healing.  Words can be very creative and can create a smile on a discouraged face and lighten your heart with burdens.  

I have compiled a series of famous athletic quotes from sports enthusiants, coaches, players and sports commentators.  I hope these inspirational quotes will enhance your journey of success and bring an inner peace that nutures and uplifts your spirit.

 

Winning isn’t everything. Wanting to win is.

~Catfish Hunter

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

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, “There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived”

~Ted Williams

Don’t let other people tell you what you want.

~Pat Riley

To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.

~Jack Nicklaus

I want to do it because I want to do it.

~Amelia Earhart

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.

~Nick Seitz

A team that has character doesn’t need stimulation.

~Tom Landry

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

~Billy Jean King

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a permanent loser.

~Anonymous

A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

~Anonymous

Football games aren’t won, they’re lost.

~Fielding Yost

If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?

~Joe Namath

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

~Jack Kemp

I know a lot of people think it’s monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it’s not if you’re enjoying what you’re doing. I love to swim and I love to train.

~Tracy Caulkins

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

~Arnold Palmer

Luck is the by product of busting your fanny.

~Don Sutton

You decide you’ll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that when past you for a strike was your pitch.

~Bobby Murcer

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.

~Woody Hayes

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

~John Dewey

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.

~Anonymous

The man who goes fishing get something more than the fish he catches.

~Mary Astor

It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What’s tough is being good every day.

~Willie Mays

There’s such a thin line between winning and losing.

~John R. Tunis

Success is dependent on effort.

~Sophocles

If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.

~M.H. Alderson