100+ Sports Quotes Motivational to Inspire Greatness

“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

“Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.” – Dwayne Johnson

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

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

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

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

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis

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

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

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

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn

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

“The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.” – Navy SEALs motto

“Champions are made when nobody is watching.” – Kobe Bryant

“Excellence is never an accident. It’s always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, skillful execution, and the vision to see obstacles as opportunities.” – A.R. Rahman

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

“Without commitment, discipline becomes a punishment. With commitment, it becomes a pathway.” – Simon Sinek

“Motivation gets you going, discipline keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn

“Success isn't owned; it's rented, and the rent is due every day.” – Denzel Washington

“Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstoppable.” – Dan Kennedy

“Winners do what losers won’t do. They embrace the grind.” – Dave Ramsey

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

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

“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

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

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

“Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” – Vince Lombardi

“The best teams have cohesion. They have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for the common goal.” – Phil Jackson

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

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford

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

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

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock

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

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” – Thomas Edison

“Failure is the tuition you pay for success.” – Walter Brunell

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford

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

“Every champion was once a contender who refused to give up.” – Rocky Balboa

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

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

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” – John Wooden

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you've been buried, but actually you've been planted.” – Christine Caine

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese Proverb

“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

“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

“Lead by example. Nothing else works as well.” – Mark Cuban

“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

“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” – Henry Ford

“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

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

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

“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

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

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

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

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

“Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.” – Marva Collins

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

“Sweat equity is the best kind of equity.” – Tim Ferriss

“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” – Conan O’Brien

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.” – Thomas Edison

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

“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” – Peter T. Mcintyre

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

“Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.” – Richard Kline

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” – Samuel Johnson

“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

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“Success starts when you believe it can happen.” – Anonymous

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

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.” – Donovan Bailey

“Passion is the genesis of genius.” – Tony Robbins

“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” – Stephen Covey

“Passion is the fuel behind persistence.” – Grant Cardone

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Let your passions rule your purpose.” – Simon Sinek

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

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

“Passion is the fire that fuels the grind.” – Unknown

“Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing.” – Warren Buffett

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

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli

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

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

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Scars are tattoos with better stories.” – Unknown

“Resilience is not about overcoming, but transforming through challenge.” – David Whyte

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” – African Proverb

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” – Jodi Picoult

“We are not helpless. We are not hopeless. We are resilient.” – Haruki Murakami

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi

“Winners are made when no one is watching.” – Kobe Bryant

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

“The moment you think you’re the best, you stop getting better.” – Novak Djokovic

“A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.” – Billie Jean King

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting and believes in themselves.” – Napoleon Hill

“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” – Vince Lombardi

“Champions behave like champions before they’re champions.” – Bill Walsh

“The winning warrior is the one who wins the war before it is fought.” – Sun Tzu

“Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.” – Bonica Brown

“I hate losing more than I love winning.” – Serena Williams

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