Funny Inspirational Sports Quotes:

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

- Arnold Palmer

source: FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

topic: Golf, Practice, Funny Things, Inspirational Golf, Sports Competition

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

- Heywood Broun

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Baseball, Good Character, Motivational Wrestling

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

- Satchel Paige

source: "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

topic: Funny, Sports, Baseball, Sports Competition, Sports Spirit

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.

- Babe Ruth

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork, Baseball Games, Softball Player

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Running, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Baseball

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

source: Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Dream, Cassius, Martial Arts Inspirational

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

- Ted Williams

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Athlete, Major League Baseball, Softball Player

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

- Tiger Woods

topic: Basketball, Sports, Fashion, Inspirational Golf, Funniest Sports

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Football, Marathon Runners

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

- Hank Aaron

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Football, Baseball Games

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

- Mike Ditka

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Baseball Games, Inspirational History

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Soccer, Sports, Football, American Football, Funny Sports

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

- George Halas

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Best Coaches, Sports Football

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

- Dave Barry

topic: Sports, Football, Winter, Funny Sports, Winter Cold

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

- Willie Mays

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Baseball, Funny Sports

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

- Mickey Mantle

source: Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.90, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Baseball, Team Player, Coward And Courage

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

- Jim Bouton

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Baseball, Baseball Games, Sports Football

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

- Rodney Dangerfield

topic: Sports, Fighting, Hockey, Inspirational Hockey, Motivational Hockey

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

- Mickey Mantle

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Athlete, Mean, Average, Favorite Sports, Baseball Games

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

- Charlie Finley

topic: Baseball, Sacrifice, Sweat, Sports Spirit, Funny Inspirational Sports

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

- Paul Coffey

topic: Life, Sports, Perseverance, Inspirational Hard Work, Inspired To Work

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

- Frank Gifford

topic: Sports, Football, Warfare, American Football, Funny Sports

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Sports, New York, Hero, City Parks, Funny Inspirational Sports

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Spiritual, Martial Arts Inspirational, Inspirational Athlete

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

- Rogers Hornsby

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Spring, Baseball Games, Great Sports

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

- Joe Namath

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Football, Baseball Games

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

- Tommy Lasorda

source: Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Baseball Games, Inspirational Determination

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Motivational, Sports, Determination, Inspirational Baseball, Inspirational Coach

I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Nba, Funniest Sports, Funny Inspirational Sports

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

- Lou Brock

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Hockey

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

- Gordie Howe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Hockey, Sports Competition

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Sports, Athlete, Hockey, Inspirational Hockey, Sports Competition

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

- Carl Lewis

source: Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

topic: Running, Block, Athlete, Marathon Running, Sports Spirit

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

- Pete Rose

source: Pete Rose, Peter Golenbock (1985). “Pete Rose on hitting: how to hit better than anybody”, Perigee

topic: Baseball, Athlete, Being The Best, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Athlete

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Motivational, Soccer, Sports, Inspirational Football, Baseball Games

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Management Motivation

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Motivational, Faith, Confidence, Lack Of Faith, Great Sports

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Men, Average, Born, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

What's tough is being good every day.

- Willie Mays

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Tough, Inspirational Baseball, Funny Sports

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.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Positive, Thinking, Hands, Softball Player, Great Sports

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Great Sports, Sports Spirit

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

- Scotty Bowman

topic: Sports, Winning, Games, Adaptability, Funny Sports