Sportsman Spirit Quotes:

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

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

- Ronnie Lott

topic: Graduation, Sports, Football, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Athlete

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Journey To Success

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

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

- John Wooden

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Sports Coaching

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Perseverance, Motivational Sports, Determination, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Coaching

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

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

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

- Vince Lombardi

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

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

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

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

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

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Thinking, Individual Goals, Individual Performance

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

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

- Joe Paterno

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

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

- Ray Knight

topic: Sports, Thinking, Concentration, Great Sports, Sports Competition

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

- Pat Riley

topic: Basketball, Motivational Sports, Determination, Great Sports, Sportsman Spirit

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

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

- Joe Paterno

topic: Motivational Sports, Determination, Nfl, Individual Performance, Sports Football

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

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Great Sports, Sports Spirit

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

- Steve Young

topic: Change, Self, Principles, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Athlete

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

- Mickey Mantle

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

topic: Sports, Baseball, Running, Sportsman Spirit, Famous Baseball

If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!

- Narendra Modi

topic: Sports, India, Our Society, Sportsman Spirit, Sportsman

There is no such thing as life in-between.

- Pat Riley

topic: Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Coaching, Inspirational Commitment

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

- Bruce Jenner

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

topic: Athlete, Assets, Ability, Softball Player, Inspirational Athlete

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

- Joe Paterno

topic: Confidence, Play, Needs, Sports Spirit, Sportsman Spirit