Top 200 Sports Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

2. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Empowering Quotes

3. “If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I won’t look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Quotes About Trying

4. “If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens.”

— J. J. Watt

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Achievement Quotes

5. “Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.”

— Bill Parcells

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Football Quotes

6. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Winning Quotes, Performance Quotes

7. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”

— Lionel Messi

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Quotes About Dreams

8. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Make A Difference Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

9. “Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Victory Quotes

10. “I think my secret is that there are no shortcuts for hard work, determination, and having that ‘don’t give up’ attitude.”

— Jerry Rice

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Workout Quotes

11. “Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you’re going to perform, you’ve already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.”

— Usain Bolt

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes, Gym Motivation Quotes, Exercise Quotes

12. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Interesting Quotes

13. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Failure Quotes, Change Quotes, Athlete Quotes

14. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Courage Quotes, Action Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

15. “Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Effort Quotes

16. “If you quit once, it becomes a habit. Never quit.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Attitude Quotes

17. “Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Loss Quotes

18. “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Success Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Coaching Quotes

19. “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

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes

20. “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.”

— Pelé

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

21. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Life Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Coaching Quotes

22. “Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Quotes About Life, Positive Work Quotes

23. “There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.”

— Usain Bolt

Also featured in: Strong Quotes, Performance Quotes

24. “You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision. And you know that it is the right thing to do and success will come.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Failure Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Empowering Quotes

25. “If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.”

— Yogi Berra

Also featured in: Silly Quotes, Choices Quotes, Future Quotes, Travel Quotes

26. “I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Startup Quotes, Focus Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

27. “If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Winning Quotes, Collaboration Quotes, Victory Quotes

28. “I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don’t tell me I can’t do something. Don’t tell me it’s impossible. Don’t tell me I’m not the greatest. I’m the double greatest.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Self-Love Quotes

29. “Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes

30. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

— Gary Player

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Performance Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Quotes About Trying

31. “There are no shortcuts to success.”

— Annika Sorenstam

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Common Sense Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Ambition Quotes

32. “A good process produces good results.”

— Nick Saban

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Practice Quotes

33. “Everything is practice.”

— Pelé

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Performance Quotes, Practice Quotes, Football Quotes

34. “From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body. I'm a big believer in hard work, grinding it out, and not stopping until it's done, so the challenge appealed to me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Dedication Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

35. “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

Also featured in: Performance Quotes, Collaboration Quotes

36. “Hard work, dedication!”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Winning Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Fighting Quotes

37. “You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Passion Quotes, Practice Quotes

38. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

— Babe Ruth

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Startup Quotes, Life Quotes, Perseverance Quotes

39. “Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.”

— Steve Prefontaine

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Running Quotes

40. “I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.”

— Ronaldinho

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Football Quotes, Soccer Quotes

41. “Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.”

— Ayrton Senna

Also featured in: Victory Quotes, Competition Quotes

42. “I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.”

— Michael Phelps

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Practice Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Victory Quotes

43. “Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Values Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Men

44. “My brain cannot process failure. It will not process failure”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Victory Quotes

45. “Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Teamwork Quotes

46. “The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Work Ethic Quotes, Grit Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

47. “Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Winning Quotes, Commitment Quotes

48. “What I’m doing right now, I’m chasing perfection... and if I don’t get it, I’m going to get this close.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Practice Quotes

49. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

— Wayne Gretzky

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Positive Quotes, Goal Quotes, Confidence Quotes

50. “Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Athlete Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes