Babe Ruth
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”
Dan OBrien
“The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I’m starting to believe that.”
Dennis Waitley
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.”
Gale Sayers
“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.”
George Shultz
“The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.”
Guy Clark
“Ain’t no chance if you don’t take it.”
Herschel Walker
“If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.”
Joe Namath
“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”
Lou Brock
“Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.”
Magic Johnson
“Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.”
Oliver Cromwell
“He who stops being better, stops being good.”
Robert Strauss
“It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired; you quit when the gorilla is tired.”
Seneca
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
Steve Young
“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
Unknown
“Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records.”
Awesome inspirational sports quotes, aren’t they?
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