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Examples of Sports Quotes
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Team Sports
Baseball Quotes
I never said most of the things I said.
Yogi Berra
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Red Barber
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Addock
You should always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t come to yours.
Yogi Berra
You win a few; you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
Satchel Paige
Basketball Quotes
When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.
Al McGuire
Success doesn’t stop when you get there.
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
Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I’m going to make it.
Steph Curry
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet and put the darn ball in the basket.
Abe Lemmons
Winning is like deodorant – it comes up, and a lot of things don’t stink.
Doc Rivers
Football Quotes
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
Dan Birdwell
There’s no substitute for guts.
Paul Bear Bryant
Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities.
Tom Brady
There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do.
Vince Lombardi
On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Lou Holtz
If you’re mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It’s about the same.
Bob Golic
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
George Halas
Individual Sports
Tennis
If you don’t practice, you don’t deserve to win.
Andre Agassi
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo L. Black
I told myself to play free. You play the ball. You don’t play the opponent. Be free in your head. Be free in your shots. Go for it. The brave will be rewarded here.
Roger Federer
Golf
Luck? Sure, but only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.
Don Adams
I’m about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right.
Ben Crenshaw
The more you play it, the less you know about it.
Patty Berg
One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.
Don Carter
Inspirational
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary
Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
Richard Kline
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
Joe Namath
The quickest way to acquire self-confidence is to do exactly what you are afraid to do.
Unknown
Life Lessons
What to do with a mistake – recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
Dean Smith
Be like a tree; let the dead leaves drop.
Rumi
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Denis Waitley
Grow through what you go through.
Unknown
I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it but by working for it.
Estee Lauder
Motivational
Hard Work
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pelé
When the sun is shining, I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
Strength
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Vernon Howard
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.
Sarah Dessen
Famous
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin
My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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