Motivational Quotes For Athletes

Golf in the morning

"Its a funny thing about golf, the more I practice the luckier I get." - Arnold Palmer




Do You Want The Key To Success In Sports?


Motivational quotes for athletes can be the fire that starts your engine! The key to winning at any sport is to begin with the right motivation. There are secrets that athletes who are on top of their game have shared with us that can help to get you focused and ready to better compete on any field!

Key #1 You must develop a burning desire to win. This can stem from a lot of things. Some athletes pull from a hard past and some for the hope of a brighter future. Motivational quotes for athletes can help!

What can you pull from in your past that will drive you to do whatever it takes to win? And how could your future be better by winning at your sport? Picture these things often, and then visualize yourself at the end of your career...as a winner!

"Desire is the key to motivation." -Mario Andretti

Key #2 You must develop a “never say die” attitude to achieve greatness in sports. People might not believe in you, fans may turn their backs on you, and you might not feel your best every day, but "never... ever...ever... give up." That is one of the greatest motivational quotes for athletes.

“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.” -Hank Aaron

Key #3 You must remember that at the end of the day it is your own evaluation of your performance that matters. You alone know the work you put into this day, and if it was the best you had. Put all the critics aside and honestly evaluate your progress. This is how you will find real improvement.

"In the battle of life it is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong one stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the one who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming. Who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, to spend themselves for a worthy cause; who, at their best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, if they fail, at least they do so while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." –Theodore Roosevelt

I hope that these keys to motivation and the motivational quotes for athletes below will help to inspire you to athletic greatness! Now take a look at one of my favorite movie clips for sports motivation...






Sports Hall of Fame Links


Need More Motivation? And maybe find some more motivational quotes for athletes? Check out the links below to see the greats in all of your favorite sports.



Professional Football Hall of Fame

Professional Baseball Hall of Fame

Professional Basketball Hall of Fame

National Golf Hall of Fame

Nascar Hall of Fame

Professional Hockey Hall of Fame





Motivational Quotes For Your Sport



Football Motivational Quotes

Basketball Motivational Quotes

Wrestling Motivational Quotes




Motivational Sport Quotes

"Winning isn't everything...but wanting to is!" -Vince Lombardi _________________________________________

"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat." - Herschel Walker

__________________________________________

"The secret to golf is turn three shots into two." - Bobby Jones

___________________________________________

"It took my seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course!" - Hank Aaron

___________________________________________

"Champions aren't made in the gym. Champions are made by something they have inside them- a desire, a dream, a vision."-Muhammad Ali

___________________________________________

"Winners Never Quit, and Quitters Never Win." -Vince Lombardi

___________________________________________

"Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself." -Sidney Sheldon

___________________________________________

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown." -Ross Perot

___________________________________________

"You must do the things you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

___________________________________________

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." -Marilyn Vos Savant

___________________________________________

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." -Booker T. Washington

___________________________________________



Are You An Everyday Sports Hero?

Do you have a great sports story from your past that is inspiring? Or do you have a motivational sports quote that inspired you to give 100% We would love to have you share it with us today!

[ ? ]

Author Information (optional)

To receive credit as the author, enter your information below.

(first or full name)

(e.g., City, State, Country)

Submit Your Contribution

  •  submission guidelines.


(You can preview and edit on the next page)

What Other Visitors Have Said

Click below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...

Dedication  Not rated yet
To be the best Blood-Sweat-Tears are necessary ❗

Reading Not rated yet
Any beneficial quotes in daily program I believe it's good knowledge.

Quote Not rated yet
When faced by the mountain, we shall never quit!

Click here to write your own.


Return To Daily Motivational Quote Home Page from Motivational Quotes For Athletes Page

Share this page:
Enjoy this page? Please pay it forward. Here's how...

Would you prefer to share this page with others by linking to it?

  1. Click on the HTML link code below.
  2. Copy and paste it, adding a note of your own, into your blog, a Web page, forums, a blog comment, your Facebook account, or anywhere that someone would find this page valuable.