FAMOUS SPORTS QUOTES

1) “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

2) “The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.” – Ernie Banks

3) “Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision.” – Muhammad Ali

4) “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

5) “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda

6) “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

7) “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele

8) “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort

9) “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.” – Jim Valvano

10) “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

11) “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke

12) “The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.” – Bobby Knight

13) “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” – Yogi Berra

14) “The harder you work, the luckier you get.” – Gary Player ENDING A LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP QUOTES

15) “If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.” – Ronnie Lott

16) “The true champion believes in the impossible.” – Floyd Patterson

17) “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Pelé

18) “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

19) “You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.” – Bobby Knight

20) “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

21) “You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

22) “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan

23) “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

24) “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

25) “This is your moment. Own it.” – Dan Gable

26) “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong

27) “The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.” – Ernie Banks