Best sport quotes!

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."

--George Herman "Babe" Ruth

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." 

--Hank Aaron

"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."

--George Shultz

"Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want."

--Hannah Whitall Smith

"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

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat."

--Queen Victoria

"I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech."

--H. Jackson Browne

"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers." 

--Brian Tracy

"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, thats the day you start to the top."

--O.J. Simpson

"When you win, nothing hurts." 

--Joe Namath

"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record." 

--Jan McKeithen

"You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose." 

--Charles Lynch

"Never let defeat have the last word." 

--Tibetan Proverb

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely."

-- Anonymous

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

--Vince Lombardi

"Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again." 

--Vince Lombardi

"Success demands singleness of purpose." 

--Vince Lombardi

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

--Winston Churchill

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

--Abraham Lincoln

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

--Vince Lombardi

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

--Vincent T. Lombardi

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

-- John Wooden

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."

--Joe Paterno

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

--Elbert Hubbard

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

--Will Rogers

"I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. "

--Bruce Jenner

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

--Lou Holtz

"Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again."

-- Michael Johnson

"There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake."

-- Robert Fripp

"Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure." 

--Dell Crossword

"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."

--Anonymous

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

--Thomas Jefferson

"The harder you train, the easier the game."

"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it."

--Author Unknown

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

--Billie Jean King

"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse."

--Unknown

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are."

--Muhammad Ali

"Act as though it is impossible to fail."

--Anonymous

"Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently."

--Zig Ziglar

"View every problem as an opportunity..."

--Joseph Sugarman

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

--Lou Holtz

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

--Anonymous

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."

--Babe Ruth

"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. "

--George Brett

"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."

--Jim Murray

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." 

--Eleanor Roosevelt