Inspirational Sports Quotes

Here are just some of the Inspirational Sports Quotes that I have found really useful over the years.

Whenever I feel the need for a bit of extra self-motivation I get out my book of quotes and read through some of the really sensible and inspiring things some great sports people have said.

They act like a tonic for me.

"We are not pawns of fate. We can argue with fate. What is important is that we don't lose sight of the direction we want to go."
Nikki Lauda, World Champion Race Driver

"To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."
Tony Dorsett

"Golfers are better because they think they are. It's like the 4 minute mile. Roger Bannister did it and 32 people did it the same year. 300 did it the next. Why did all those people suddenly get faster? Because they believed they could be."
Lee Janzen, US Open Winner

"Confidence is a bar of soap in the power shower of sporting life. Grasp it too tight and it squirts from your hands; reach to pick it up again and you are flat on your back."
Simon Barnes, Sports Writer

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: The would is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Anonymous

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Coach Darrel Royal

"There are days when I can hear men tying their shoe laces in the gallery."
Fuzzy Zoeller, US Golf Champion

"You never get free from technique if you understand it. All you want is to learn more."
Dame Ninette de Valois, Prima Ballerina

"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, thats the day you start to the top."
O.J. Simpson

"You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge."
Damon Runyon

"I start with the premise that everyone is capable of getting more out of themselves than they every believed possible."
Damon Hill, World Champion, Motor Racing

"All Olympic Champions are people who believe in themselves, and therefore in the extra power built into personality."
Bob Richards, Gold Medalist

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