Sports Motivational Quotes

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"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." Jim Valvano, Basketball Coach

"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting." Dick Vermeil

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile." Vince Lombardi, Football Coach

"It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again." Charles Kettering

"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it." Wayne Gretzky, Canadian Hockey Player

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it." Jim Valvano, Basketball Coach

"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle." Richard DeVos

"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy." Wayne Gretzky, Canadian Hockey Player

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way." Satchel Paige

"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing, and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!" Lou Holtz, Football Coach

"A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are." Ara Parasheghian, Football Coach

"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual." Vince Lombardi, Football Coach

"The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different." Rick Pitino, Basketball Coach

"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer there are for a player to break."
John Madden, Football Coach





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"Winning is only half of it.
Having fun is the other half."
Bum Phillips, Football Coach

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