Motivational Sports Quotes

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

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

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

Character is what you do when no one is watching.

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

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.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

I fight for perfection

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

Before every shot, I go to the movies

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

All sports are games of inches.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.