Motivational Sports Quotes

If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.  -Bud Wilkinson

You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.  -Bud Wilkinson

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.  -Ron Blomberg

The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.  -Todd Blackledge

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.  -John Wooden

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.  -Edward C. Simmons

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

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.  -Vince Lombardi

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.  -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back.  -Unknown

It isn't hard to be good from time to time insports. What is tough, is being good every day.  -Willie Mays

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.  -Dan Gable

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.  -Steve Prefontaine

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.  -Evander Holyfield

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.  -Tommy Lasorda