101 Short Motivational Sports Phrases [with Pictures]

Sport and physical activity is fundamental in my life and it should be in yours if you want to lead a healthy life mentally and physically. For this I bring you these motivational sports phrases for athletes, short and that can serve to motivate you, such as slogans, banners, children, the Olympics ...

Can you imagine receiving good advice from a star in your favorite sport? Well, thanks to the fact that they were collected by someone at the time, you can in a certain way, because a statement transmits the way of thinking of a person and the way of thinking determines what is achieved in life.

These sports motivation phrases belong to great athletes and champions throughout history, and from various sports, including: Michael Jordan, Pelé, Michael Phelps, Carl Lewis, Muhammad Ali, Rafael Nadal, Mark Spitz or Lebron James.

You may also be interested in these phrases about teamwork, are you about soccer or are you about basketball?.

Great sports quotes to motivate you

-You have to do something honorable and courageous in your life if you want to live with yourself.-Larry Brown.

-The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness of winning.-Pelé.

-Everything is practical.-Pelé.

-You have to expect things from yourself before you can do them.-Michael Jordan.

-If you do not have confidence, you will always find a way not to win.-Carl Lewis.

-You cannot put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you go.-Michael Phelps.

-Glory is being happy. Glory is not winning here or there. Glory is enjoying practicing, enjoying every day, enjoying working hard, trying to be a better player than before.-Rafael Nadal.

-If you do not lose, you cannot enjoy the victories.-Rafael Nadal.

-I am a very positive thinker and I think that is what has helped me in the most difficult moments.-Roger Federer.

-Don't ask yourself what your peers can do for you. Ask yourself what you can do for them.-Magic Johnson.

-Once something is a passion, there is motivation.-Michael Schumacher.

-I always thought that records were to be broken.-Michael Schumacher.

-I wake up in the morning looking for an adventure.-George Foreman.

-My strength is that I am more balanced and calm than most cyclists.-Miguel Indurain.

-Set your goals high, and don't stop until you get there.-Bo Jackson.

-It's not about whether you get knocked down; It's about if you get up.-Vince Lombardi.

-There may be people with more talent than you, but there are no excuses not to work harder.-Derek Jeter.

-If you fail to prepare, you are prepared to fail.-Mark Spitz.

-My mother thinks I am the best. And I grew up to always do what my mother told me.-Diego Maradona. 

-If you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.-Diego Maradona.

-You have to fight to achieve your dreams. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.-Lionel Messi. 

-Each season is a new challenge for me, and I always propose to improve in terms of games, goals and assists.-Cristiano Ronaldo.

-Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is an opportunity to grow.-Kobe Bryant.

-If you are afraid of failing, you will probably fail.-Kobe Bryant.

-You have to be able to accept failures to improve.-LeBron James.

-I like criticism, they make you stronger.-LeBron James.

-You cannot win unless you learn how to lose.-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

-He who is not brave enough to take risks will achieve nothing in life.-Muhammad Ali.

-Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.-Michael Jordan.

-If you are afraid of failing you do not deserve to be successful.-Charles Barkley.

-It is not the will to win that matters, everyone has it. It is the will to prepare that matters.-Paul “Bear” Bryant.

-A man can be a crucial ingredient for a team, but a man cannot be a team.-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

-I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost more than 3000 games. 26 times I was trusted to shoot the winning shot and I missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I have been successful.-Michael Jordan.

-You always play to win. That's why you play tennis, because you love sport and you try to be the best you can.-Roger Federer.

-I hated every minute of training, but I said, "don't quit." Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.-Muhammad Ali.

-I have a theory that if you give 100% all the time, things will work out in the end.-Larry Bird.

-It's hard to get over a person who never gives up.-Babe Ruth.

-Champions are not made in the gym. Champions are made of something they have inside, a wish, a dream, a vision.-Muhammad Ali.

-You can always be better.-Tiger Woods.

-Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges make you grow.-Manny Pacquiao.

-Persistence can change failure to extraordinary achievement.-Marv Levy.

-Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, the days when you don't feel like doing them.-Julius Erving.

-Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.-Frank L. Gaines.

-Age is not a barrier. It is a limitation that you put in your mind.-Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

-It is not the size of a man that matters, but the size of his heart.-Evander Holyfield.

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

-I have learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.-Tom Landry.

-Winners never give up and those who give up never win.-Vince Lombardi.

-What you lack in talent you can counteract with desire, work and giving 110% all the time.-Don Zimmer.

-Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to be better.-Pat Riley.

-The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in personal determination.-Tommy Lasorda.

-Winning requires talent; repeat requires character.-John Wooden.

-The mind is the limit. If the mind sees that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you truly believe it 100 %.- Arnold Schwarzenegger.

-Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Find how to climb it, go through it or go around it.-Michael Jordan.

-Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.-John Wooden.

-If you train hard, you will not only be tough, it will be tough to beat.-Herschel Walker.

-A champion is someone who stands up when he can't take it anymore.-William Harrison “Jack” Dempsey.

-Make sure your worst enemy does not live between your two ears.-Laird Hamilton.

-Today I will do what others will not do, for tomorrow I will get what others cannot.-Jerry Rice.

-If you only give 90% in workouts, you will only give 90% when it matters.-Michael Owen.

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

-Do your best, even when the odds are against you.-Arnold Palmer.

-You are not a loser until you stop trying.-Mike Ditka.

-The best motivation always comes from within.-Michael Johnson.

-Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.-Bobby Unser.

-You lose 100% of the attempts you don't use.-Wayne Gretzky.

-You can't get much in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.-Jerry West.

-Only those who risk going far, can find how far they can go.-T.S. Eliot.

-Each strike brings me closer to the next home run.-Babe Ruth.

-Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you have to, just never give up.-Dean Karnazes.

-A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.-Billie Jean King.

-Sport teaches you to have character, to follow the rules, to know how it feels to win or lose: it teaches you about life.-Billie Jean King.

-I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.-Ferdinand Porsche.

-Gold medals are not made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.-Dan Gable.

-Sports don't build character. They reveal it.-Heywood Broun.

-A trophy is lost in the dust, the memory lasts forever.-Mary Lou Retton.

-To be number one you have to have a passion for running. Love the morning, love the trail, love the beat on the track.-Pat Tyson.

-Most people quit just when they are about to achieve success. They stopped trying near the end. They surrender at the last minute one foot from a winning touchdown.-Ross Perot.

-A man practicing a sport is a thousand times better than one who glorifies it.-Knute Rockne.

-An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. You must do it with hope in your heart and dreams in your mind.-Emil Zatopek.

-Somewhere behind the athlete you have become and the hours of practice and the coaches that have pushed you, there is a girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back ... play for her.-Mia Hamm.

-When you have something to try, there is nothing better than a challenge.-Terry Bradshaw.

-Adversity makes some men break; others to break records.-William Arthur Ward.

-Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.-Vince Lombardi.

-Above all, sports like judo, in my opinion, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, they teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up resistance, but can win if we relax and take too much for granted.-Vladimir Putin.

-My motto was always to keep fanning. If I was in a depression or feeling bad or having trouble off the field, all I could do was keep swinging. -Hank Aaron.

-Life is full of regrets, but there is no use looking back.-Zidane Zidane.

-If you can't beat them in the game, beat them in training.-Ben Hogan.

-People ask me what I do in winter when there is no baseball. I'll tell you what I do: I stay in front of the window to wait for it to finish.-Rogers Hornsby.

-You cannot win unless you learn to lose. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

-Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? Have the opportunity to play.-Mike Singletary.

-Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, but effort, is the key to unleashing our full potential.-Liane Cardes.

-Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.-Casey Stengel.

-It's just a job. The grass grows, the birds fly, the waves hit the sand. I hit people.-Muhammad Ali.

-It's something you learn in sports. You don't give up; You fight to the end.-Louis Zamperini.

-What you lack in talent can be made up for with desire, determination and giving 110% all the time.-Don Zimmer.

-If you fail to prepare you are preparing to fail.-Mark Spitz.

-Persistence can turn failure into extraordinary achievement. -Matt Biondi.

-What keeps me going are the goals.-Muhammad Ali.

-You have to free your mind to do things that you wouldn't think you can do. Never say no.-Carl Lewis.

-Scientists have shown that it is impossible to jump 30 feet long, but I don't listen to those kinds of conversations. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.-Carl Lewis.

-Winning is not everything. Wanting to win yes it is.-Vince Lombardi Jr.

-The miracle is not that you have reached the goal. The miracle is that he had the courage to start.-John Bingham.

-Running is not a sport for pretty kids. It's sweat on your hair and blisters on your feet. It's frozen saliva on your chin and nausea in your throat. It is massaging your legs and having cramps so strong that they would be enough to revive the dead.-Paul Maurer.

-Running is having the desire to train and persevere until every fiber in your legs, your mind and your heart is transformed into steel. And when you do, you will be the best runner. That's all you need.-Paul Maurer.

-It is not over until it is over.-Yogi Berra.

-Never let the fear of being struck prevent you from playing.-Babe Ruth.

-Many people say that I am the best soccer player in the world. I don't think that's true. And for that reason, perhaps one day it will become one.-Mia Hamm.

-Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, others go to the corner bar and dip into a glass of beer. I prefer running to be my therapy.-Dean Karnazes.

-The thing with soccer, the most important thing about soccer, is that it is not just about soccer.-Terry Pratchett.

-Soccer is like life. It requires perseverance, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authorities.-Vince Lombardi Jr.

-In the dust of defeat and on the laurels of victory, glory can be found if one gave his best.-Eric Liddell.

-They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you that practice makes you perfect. I wish they could decide.-Wilt Chamberlain.

-Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice, it will guide you to achieve your dreams.-James Ross.

-You must give 100% in the first half of the match. If that is not enough, in the second half you must give everything you have left.-Yogi Berra.

-Everyone has fire, but only champions know how to light the spark.-Amit Ray.

-You don't want to beat the team alone. You want to leave a strong impression, so they don't want to see you again.-Mia Hamm.

-Champions keep playing until they make it.-Billie Jean King.

-Athletes are born winners, not natural losers. Once you understand this, you will seek a winning attitude and begin to succeed.-Charles R. Sledge Jr.

-Work on your weakness until it becomes your strength.-Knute Rockne.

-The strong do not win. He who wins is strong.-Franz Beckenbauer.

-Do not look back. Someone could be ahead of you.-Leroy Satchel Paige.

-You are not always going to win because life is not about that.-Bobby Orr.

-If a team intimidates you physically and you let yourself be intimidated, then they won.-Mia Hamm.

-A life training only for 10 seconds.-Jesse Owens.

-Most of the success in soccer is in the mind. You must believe that you are the best and then you have to make sure you are.-Bill Shankly.

-I'm playing, I'm here I will fight until they tell me they don't need me.-Steve Nash.

-What if it hurts? Well of course. Running without pain is not running. But the pleasure of being ahead is a million times greater than the pain. To hell with pain.-Brad Alan Lewis.

-If you have confidence, you have patience. Confidence is everything.-Ilie Nastase.

-The main goal of any coach should be to prepare better people.-Bobby Orr.

-The strength of the team is each of its members. The strength of each member is the team.-Phil Jackson.

-Besides sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sense of national unity.-Simon Kuper.

-Running is going out and starting running when the rest of the world dreams of having the passion you need to live each day. It is being on a lonely road and running like a champion even though there is not a single person to cheer you on.-Paul Maurer.

-What is six minutes of pain compared to what they will feel for the next six months or the next six decades? You never forget the times you won or the times you lost. You never forget.-Brad Alan Lewis.