Top 36 Sports Quotes

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Sports are a great chance to inspire people. With that in mind, check out the top 36 sports quotes.

#36 – 30. Sports Quotes

36. People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don’t have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you’re a good athlete, it doesn’t mean you’re not a woman. – Martina Navratilova

35. I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. – Bruce Jenner

34. Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind. – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

33. Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor. – Ernest Hemingway

32. Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me. – Cal Ripken, Jr.

31. Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. – Lewis Mumford

30. The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose. – Ernie Banks

#29 – 20. Sports Quotes

29. In sports… you play from the time you’re eight years old, and then you’re done forever. – Joe Montana

28. There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do. – Derek Jeter

27. How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do ‘important’ work! Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls. – Max Beerbohm

26. When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important. – Bill Shoemaker

25. Cancer can take away all my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever. – Jimmy Valvano

24. If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail. – Mark Spitz

23. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell

22. There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. – Roland Barthes

21. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

20. Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. – Frank L. Gaines

#19 – 10. Sports Quotes

19. To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them. – Picabo Street

18. The only way to prove you are a good sport is to lose. – Ernie Banks

17. For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture. – Ernest Becker

16. I don’t count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting. – Muhammad Ali

15. There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis. – Arthur Ashe

14. The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. – John Madden

13. Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all. – Ouida

12. Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart. – Chuck D

11. I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports. – Arthur Ashe

10. The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. – Peggy Fleming

#9 – 1. Sports Quotes

9. I know why I’m going where I’m going and I’m already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise… it’s a consistent reward for victory! – Sasha Azevedo

8. This phrase, Citius, Altius, Fortius is the Olympic Motto. – Pierre de Coubertin

7. Sports should always be fun. – Charles Mann

6. If luck weren’t involved, I’d win every tournament! – Phil Hellmuth

5. When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we’re rained out. – Tommy Lasorda

4. Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. – Mike Singletary

3. It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. – Evander Holyfield

2. In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances. – Terry Orlick

1. Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. – Satchel Paige

Ideas for the top 36 sports quotes come from the following sources.^[1]Quoteland – Sports^[2]Lifehack – 25 All-Time Best Inspirational Sports Quote To Get You Going^[3]Keepinspiring.me – 100 Most Inspirational Sports Quote Of All Time