A collection of sports quotes and sayings for encouragement and inspiration. Many of the sayings that are used in sports also apply to life. Let these words of wisdom
be ones that you apply in your day to day life.
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.
Joseph Pilates
Inspirational Poems
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
Don't Quit Poem
You will never win if you retreat. You will never win if you just take a back seat.
Catherine Pulsifer, Win or Defeat
Poems About Winning
Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.
Nelson Mandela
Poems On Life Lessons
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely
the demonstration of their championship character.
Alan Armstrong
Attitude Poems
In the cheers of our grandchildren's games, we find echoes of our own victories and struggles, reminding us that life's adventures continue through the generations.
Amber R. Treeman
Poems About Grandchildren
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
Roy Campanella
Life Quotes
Sport is a preserver of health.
Hippocrates
Health Quotes
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others.
That's the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno
Be An Example Quotes
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
Les Brown
Dream Quotes
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
Solutions Quotes
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
Failure Quotes
"What does the Golden Rule mean most to you?"....He told the Golden Rule of any sport: "To me, it means to go the second mile."
William Arthur Ward
The Golden Rule
Ingenuity plus courage plus work equals miracles.
Bob Richards
Courage Quotes
I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers.
I learn winning from coaches.
Harvey Penick
Learning Quotes
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports.
What is tough, is being good every day.
Willie Mays
Difficult Times Quotes
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon
Patience Quotes
You can't make a great play unless you do it first in practice.
Chuck Noll
Proverbs
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve.
Find another way.
Satchel Paige
Overwhelmed Quotes