Toughness In Sports Quotes:

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

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Attitude, Inspirational Coaching

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

- Jerry Rice

source: "Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.com.

topic: Athlete, Today, Tomorrow, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Football Coach

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

- Bill Russell

topic: Basketball, Victory, Mental Toughness, Concentrating, Mentally Tough

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Football, Softball Player

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

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Sports, Figures, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Attitude, Struggle, Moving, Mentally Tough, Sports Mental Toughness

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

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

- Alex Karras

source: "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

topic: Fitness, Soul, Spirit, Keep A Positive Attitude, Inspirational Strength

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 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

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best 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

It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

- Reggie Crist

topic: Shapes, Want, Skiing, Sports Mental Toughness, Mental Toughness

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Basketball, Sports Mental Toughness, Basketball Player

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Running, Pain, Race, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

- Bobby Knight

topic: Leadership, Sports, Four, Sports Mental Toughness, Mental Strength

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

topic: Men, Arena, Credit, Strong Man, Putting Yourself Out There

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

- Bobby Jones

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Golf, Games, Inches, Sports Mental Toughness, Motivational Golf

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

- Michael Jordan

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

topic: Running, Wall, Giving Up, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

- Mia Hamm

topic: Athlete, Player, Important, Sports Mental Toughness, Mental Toughness

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

- Chris Evert

topic: Athlete, Skills, Toughness, Sports Mental Toughness, Mental Toughness

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

- Lance Armstrong

source: "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Love Pain, Sports Mental Toughness

When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.

- Dan Gable

topic: Motivational, Tired, Athlete, Sports Training, Motivational Wrestling

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Trying, Achieve, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspirational Adversity

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Achievement

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success