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Sports have a unique power to inspire, challenge, and unite people across cultures and generations. The words of athletes, coaches, and thinkers often capture the dedication, resilience, and passion that define competition. The following quotes reflect the spirit of sports and the lessons they teach both on and off the field.    ◀ Back
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If we had played Poly a hundred more times that year we wouldn't have beaten them again. On that night we found a way. It was an unbelievable thing. It was a marvelous, miraculous win." -Coach Frank Allocco
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
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Being strong means that you are made of steel.
- Pēteris Bitāns
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all about that action boss
- marshawn lynch
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What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.
- Matt Long
The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete
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My favorite passage from the book: "Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don't ever want to be again. Everything we do is part of who we are. How we choose to use those memories, to motivate or to submit is entirely up to us.
- Shane Niemeyer The Hurt Artist
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Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state. The farm town high school I play for is nicknamed the "Indians," and I'm probably the only actual Indian ever to play for a team with such a mascot.

This morning I pick up the sports page and read the headline: INDIANS LOSE AGAIN.

Go ahead and tell me none of this is supposed to hurt me very much.
- Sherman Alexie
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
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His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me.
- Collette West
Night Games
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When you're up against adversity, when your shots aren't falling, when guys are hanging on you, pushing you, fouling you, and you're not getting calls, that's when discipline matters. Instead of flying off the handle or blaming your teammates, the officials, or the opposition, players have to keep calm and act decisively to change the tide. Playing the blame game is a sure sign that a team has not jelled and is taking the wrong path
- Walt Frazier
The Game Within the Game
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Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.
- Gloria Whelan
Listening for Lions
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One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best results not when you apply superhuman effort but when you let the game flow organically and allow yourself to be fully present. You'll often hear scouts say of a great prospect, "The game comes slow to him." It mean the prospect is skilled and poised enough to let the game unfold in its own time, paying no attention to the angst or urgency or doubt, funnelling all awareness to the athletic task at hand.
- R.A. Dickey
Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
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Will we ever see his like again? It is doubtful. But at least for a brief moment in time we were lucky to have him as one of our own: an English lionheart who was the terror of the continent, who earned the love and respect of everyone who had the privilege to see him in action and above all was a thoroughly decent hero of whom we can be proud. Rest in peace 'Big Dunc'. Your feats will echo in eternity.
- James Leighton
Duncan Edwards: The Greatest
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ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.
- Anthony Liccione
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Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
- David Mitchell
Number9Dream
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I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
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You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.
- Criss Jami
Healology
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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
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I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
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I've never lost a game. I just ran out of time.
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Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.
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[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"

(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)
- David Halberstam
Everything They Had: Sports Writing
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
- Billie Jean King
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Swimming is simply moving meditation.
- Cesar Nikko Caharian
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When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped; nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development. The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.
- W. Timothy Gallwey
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
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If we had played Poly a hundred more times that year we wouldn't have beaten them again. On that night we found a way. It was an unbelievable thing. It was a marvelous, miraculous win." -Coach Frank Allocco
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being strong means that you are made of steel.
- Pēteris Bitāns
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
all about that action boss
- marshawn lynch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.
- Matt Long
The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My favorite passage from the book: "Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don't ever want to be again. Everything we do is part of who we are. How we choose to use those memories, to motivate or to submit is entirely up to us.
- Shane Niemeyer The Hurt Artist
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Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state. The farm town high school I play for is nicknamed the "Indians," and I'm probably the only actual Indian ever to play for a team with such a mascot.

This morning I pick up the sports page and read the headline: INDIANS LOSE AGAIN.

Go ahead and tell me none of this is supposed to hurt me very much.
- Sherman Alexie
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me.
- Collette West
Night Games
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you're up against adversity, when your shots aren't falling, when guys are hanging on you, pushing you, fouling you, and you're not getting calls, that's when discipline matters. Instead of flying off the handle or blaming your teammates, the officials, or the opposition, players have to keep calm and act decisively to change the tide. Playing the blame game is a sure sign that a team has not jelled and is taking the wrong path
- Walt Frazier
The Game Within the Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.
- Gloria Whelan
Listening for Lions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best results not when you apply superhuman effort but when you let the game flow organically and allow yourself to be fully present. You'll often hear scouts say of a great prospect, "The game comes slow to him." It mean the prospect is skilled and poised enough to let the game unfold in its own time, paying no attention to the angst or urgency or doubt, funnelling all awareness to the athletic task at hand.
- R.A. Dickey
Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Will we ever see his like again? It is doubtful. But at least for a brief moment in time we were lucky to have him as one of our own: an English lionheart who was the terror of the continent, who earned the love and respect of everyone who had the privilege to see him in action and above all was a thoroughly decent hero of whom we can be proud. Rest in peace 'Big Dunc'. Your feats will echo in eternity.
- James Leighton
Duncan Edwards: The Greatest
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.
- Anthony Liccione
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
- David Mitchell
Number9Dream
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.
- Criss Jami
Healology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've never lost a game. I just ran out of time.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"

(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)
- David Halberstam
Everything They Had: Sports Writing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
- Billie Jean King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Swimming is simply moving meditation.
- Cesar Nikko Caharian
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped; nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development. The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.
- W. Timothy Gallwey
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we had played Poly a hundred more times that year we wouldn't have beaten them again. On that night we found a way. It was an unbelievable thing. It was a marvelous, miraculous win." -Coach Frank Allocco
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being strong means that you are made of steel.
- Pēteris Bitāns
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
all about that action boss
- marshawn lynch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.
- Matt Long
The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My favorite passage from the book: "Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don't ever want to be again. Everything we do is part of who we are. How we choose to use those memories, to motivate or to submit is entirely up to us.
- Shane Niemeyer The Hurt Artist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state. The farm town high school I play for is nicknamed the "Indians," and I'm probably the only actual Indian ever to play for a team with such a mascot.

This morning I pick up the sports page and read the headline: INDIANS LOSE AGAIN.

Go ahead and tell me none of this is supposed to hurt me very much.
- Sherman Alexie
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me.
- Collette West
Night Games
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you're up against adversity, when your shots aren't falling, when guys are hanging on you, pushing you, fouling you, and you're not getting calls, that's when discipline matters. Instead of flying off the handle or blaming your teammates, the officials, or the opposition, players have to keep calm and act decisively to change the tide. Playing the blame game is a sure sign that a team has not jelled and is taking the wrong path
- Walt Frazier
The Game Within the Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.
- Gloria Whelan
Listening for Lions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best results not when you apply superhuman effort but when you let the game flow organically and allow yourself to be fully present. You'll often hear scouts say of a great prospect, "The game comes slow to him." It mean the prospect is skilled and poised enough to let the game unfold in its own time, paying no attention to the angst or urgency or doubt, funnelling all awareness to the athletic task at hand.
- R.A. Dickey
Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Will we ever see his like again? It is doubtful. But at least for a brief moment in time we were lucky to have him as one of our own: an English lionheart who was the terror of the continent, who earned the love and respect of everyone who had the privilege to see him in action and above all was a thoroughly decent hero of whom we can be proud. Rest in peace 'Big Dunc'. Your feats will echo in eternity.
- James Leighton
Duncan Edwards: The Greatest
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.
- Anthony Liccione
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.
- David Mitchell
Number9Dream
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.
- Criss Jami
Healology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.
- Cristiano Ronaldo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've never lost a game. I just ran out of time.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"

(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)
- David Halberstam
Everything They Had: Sports Writing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
- Billie Jean King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Swimming is simply moving meditation.
- Cesar Nikko Caharian
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped; nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development. The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.
- W. Timothy Gallwey
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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