100+ Best Inspirational Sports Quotes to Motivate Your Game

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Success is no accident. It’s hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.” – Pelé

“Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You dream it, you can do it.” – Muhammad Ali

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“Champions are made when no one is watching.” – Simon Sinek

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“When you feel like quitting, think about why you started.” – Unknown

“Great things come to those who don’t stop believing, trying, working, and fighting.” – Roy T. Bennett

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan

“I wake up every morning at seven and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over, so I don't take a single day for granted.” – Kobe Bryant

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” – Muhammad Ali

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” – Shaquille O’Neal

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Anonymous

“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson

“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” – Frank Ocean

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.” – Unknown

“The price of success is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.” – Dan Kennedy

“Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

“If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.” – Kobe Bryant

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” – C.S. Lewis

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” – Roy T. Bennett

“The moment you’re ready to quit is usually the moment right before the miracle happens.” – Unknown

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure—it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success.” – Ray Kroc

“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.” – Dr. Gary Motter

“Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and that’s more important than talent.” – Jack Nicklaus

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson

“I am not a champion because I win, I am a champion because I never gave up.” – Serena Williams

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar

“Your level of belief determines your level of success.” – Tony Robbins

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Self-belief is the greatest weapon you can have.” – Rafael Nadal

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan

“Teamwork makes the dream work.” – John C. Maxwell

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson

“There is no 'I' in team.” – John Madden

“Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” – Mattie Stepanek

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford

“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.” – Norman Shidle

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro

“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.” – Mike Schmoker

“None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard

“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“Lead by example. Nothing else works as well.” – Ken Blanchard

“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.” – John C. Maxwell

“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” – Ken Kesey

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

“True leadership stems from character, integrity, and courage.” – Bill Owens

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John C. Maxwell

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We are always stronger than we know.” – Jon Krakauer

“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.” – E.O. Wilson

“When the world says, ‘Give up,’ hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.’” – Anonymous

“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers

“Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.” – Anonymous

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie

“Limitations only exist if you let them.” – Usain Bolt

“You’ve got to push past the pain, the tired, the sore. That’s when you grow.” – Dwayne Johnson

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lou Holtz

“The body achieves what the mind believes.” – Unknown

“Greatness happens when your comfort zone stops.” – Unknown

“I play because I love the game.” – Kobe Bryant

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan

“I didn’t lose. I just ran out of time.” – Vince Lombardi

“I love basketball more than anything in the world.” – Stephen Curry

“Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise.” – Sam Walton

“The love of the game is what keeps you going.” – Alex Morgan

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder

“Winning is fun, yes, but it is the action of striving, the struggle, that forms the basis of living.” – Carol Lewis

“The joy of the sport is in the playing.” – Billie Jean King

“When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.” – Harvey Mackay

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Mental toughness is essential to success.” – Vince Lombardi

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“The ability to endure adversity is what separates the good from the great.” – Lou Holtz

“Pressure is a privilege.” – Billie Jean King

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the very end.” – Marian Wright Edelman

“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” – Mary Holloway

“The comeback is always stronger than the setback.” – Unknown

“Adversity introduces a man to himself.” – Albert Einstein

“Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the hero within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

“Resilience is not about bouncing back, it’s about leaping forward.” – Melody Wilding

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Greatness is not given, it is earned through sweat, sacrifice, and perseverance.” – Unknown

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

“You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.” – Herb Brooks

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

“To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Gafka

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself.” – Jordan Belfort