Sports Quotes of All Time: Sports are known for having some of the best athletes, most interesting people, powerful leaders, and most memorable heroes. However, only a small number of people have left as big of a mark with their words as they have with their skills. From legends to sportswriters to wannabe stars and fiery teachers, these people have never been afraid to say what they think, even if it means breaking the rules of grammar. Some people were confused by what they said, but others were moved by it.
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Here are the 100 best quotes in sports history:
1. Jessica Ennis-Hill
“The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you and you don’t have to listen.”
2. Simone Biles
“I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.”
3. Ernie Banks
“The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.”
4. Knute Rockne
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.”
5. Gertrude Ederle
“I just knew if it could be done, it had to be done, and I did it.”
6. Serena Williams
“Overpower. Overtake. Overcome.”
7. Ken Doherty
“The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.”
8. Emil Zatopek
“An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.”
9. Ann Meyers
“Somebody gives you an opportunity, say yes to it. So what if you fail? you won’t know if you fail or succeed unless you try.”
10. Eddie Reese
“The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.”
11. Laird Hamilton
“Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.”
12. Andre Agassi
“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”
13. J. Askenberg
“You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.”
14. Alex Morgan
“Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it’s never really over until the whistle blows.”
15. Florence Griffith Joyner
“I believe in the impossible because no one else does.”
16. Hayley Wickenheiser
“Many times, I had to dig deep and perform. All of that adversity helped me and drove me to want to be the best.”
17. Vince Lombardi
“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”
18. Tommy Lasorda
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.”
19. Muhammad Ali
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”
20. Bobby Knight
“When my time on Earth is gone, and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass.”
21. John Wooden
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
22. Jim Valvano
“Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.”
23. Ric Flair
“To be the man, you have to beat the man.”
24. Dennis Green
“They are who we thought they were!”
25. Lou Brock
“Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.”
26. Jim Courier
“Sportsmanship for me is when a guy walks off the court and you really can’t tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.”
27. Shaquille O’Neal
“Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you do repeatedly.”
28. Jack Dempsey
“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.”
29. Joe Namath
“I wanna kiss you. I couldn’t care less about the team struggling.”
30. Ken Griffey Jr.
“I can’t play being mad. I go out there and have fun. It’s a game, and that’s how I am going to treat it.”
31. Knute Rockne
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.”
32. Ara Parseghian
“A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.”
33. Jesse Owens
“In the end, it’s extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don’t win, how can you lose?”
34. Paul “Bear” Bryant
“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
35. Steve Prefontaine
“Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.”
36. Jim Abbott
“It’s not the disability that defines you; it’s how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. We have an obligation to the abilities we DO have, not the disability.”
37. Mike Singletary
“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”
38. Michael Jordan
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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.”
39. LeBron James
“Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”
40. Michael Phelps
“You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits.”
41. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
“If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied.” —Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
42. Derek Jeter
“You’re playing a game, whether it’s Little League or Game 7 of the World Series. It’s impossible to do well unless you’re having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there’s pressure. But I just look at it as fun.”
43. Vince Lombardi
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
44. Wilma Rudolph
“Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.”
45. George F. Will
“Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.”
46. Arthur Ashe
“You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.”
47. Neale Donald Walsh
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
48. Ben Hogan
“If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.”
49. Seneca the Younger
“Even while they teach, men learn.”
50. Steve Backley
“It is action that creates motivation.”
51. Ronnie Lott
“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.”
52. Jimmy Demaret
“Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them!”
53. Magic Johnson
“Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.”
54. Tom Landry
“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.”
55. Marv Levy
“Football doesn’t build character, it reveals character!”
56. Herschel Walker
“If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.”
57. Tony Dorsett
“To succeed…You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”
58. Steve Garvey
“The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.”
59. John Madden
“The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
60. Abe Lemons
“One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn’t do you any good.”
61. Sam Snead
“I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.”
62. Emil Zatopek
“An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.”
63. Gary Player
“The more I practice, the luckier I get.”
64. Ted Walsh
“This is really a lovely horse; I once rode her mother.”
65. Matt Stairs
“When you get that nice celebration coming into the dugout and you’re getting your ass hammered by guys—there’s no better feeling than to have that done.”
66. Jerry Rice
“I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.”
67. Pat Williams
“We can’t win at home. We can’t win on the road. As general manager, I just can’t figure out where else to play.”
68. Doug Collins
“Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, they almost always win.”
69. Rocky Graziano
“I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn’t spell it.”
70. George Best
“I spent 90 percent of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted!”
71. Carl Everett
“The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can’t say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.”
72. Joe Theismann
“Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”
73. Mike Cameron
“The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.”
74. Mike Tyson
“[He] called me a ‘rapist’ and a ‘recluse.’ I’m not a recluse.”
75. Herman Edwards
“You play to win the game…Hello. You play to win the game.”
76. Harry Caray
“Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?”
77. Dennis Rodman
“Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.”
78. George Brett
“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out!”
79. Ted Williams
“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”
80. Wes Westrum
“Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.”
81. Allen Iverson
“We talkin’ bout practice?”
82. Doug Plank
“Most football players are temperamental. That’s 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.”
83. Bruce Coslet
“I don’t know what he has. A pulled groin. A hip flexor. I don’t know. A pulled something. I never pulled anything. You can’t pull fat.”
84. Chad Ochocinco
“Child please!”
85. Red Auerbach
“Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.”
86. Dale Earnhardt
“You win some, lose some, and wreck some.”
87. Jim Mora
“What’s that? Ah – Playoffs? Don’t talk about – playoffs?! You kidding me?! Playoffs?! I just hope we can win a game! Another game!”
88. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.”
89. Frank Robinson
“Close don’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.”
90. Steffi Graf
“When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.”
91. Hank Aaron
“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
92. Emmitt Smith
“For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.”
93. Jacques Plante
” Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you?”
94. Wilt Chamberlain
“Nobody roots for Goliath.”
95. Bo Jackson
“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.”
96. Gale Sayers
“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.”
97. Mike Ditka
“What’s the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining.”
98. (The Mind of A) Greg Jennings
“I put the team on my back doh.”
99. Lou Piniella
“Statistics are like bikinis—they show a lot but not everything.”
100. Michael Jordan
“I’ve missed more than 9000 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.”
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