31 Best Inspirational Sports Quotes

If you are a sportsman or sports fan then these quotes are for you. Because here are the best motivational sports quotes from famous sportsmen like Usain Bolt, Muhammad Ali, Sachin Tendulkar, Pele. That will motivate you to be your best on or off the field.

Sport Quotes

• “Sport is not something you can immediately walk away from, it is something which slowly starts to disappear from you.”  ~Gerald Huang
• “It’s hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.”  ~Zinedine Zidane
• “All four of those are on grass, whereas I have to play some on a hard court!”  ~Roger Federer
• “Athletes don’t have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn’t get you anywhere in a race.”  ~Lance Armstrong
• “Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”  ~Michael Jordon

• “The critic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”  ~Oscar Wilde
• “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”  ~Michael Jordan
• “Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.”
• “I don’t know the history of my sport. I’m not like those people who know everything.”  ~Usain Bolt
• “The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.”  ~George Shultz

Motivational Sports Quotes

• “Previously I always thought it was just tactical and technique, but every match has become almost mental and physical-I try to push myself to move well. I try to push myself not to get upset and stay positive, and that’s what my biggest improvement is over all those years. Under pressure I can see things very clear.”  ~Roger Federer
• “Sometimes I don’t know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.”  ~Zinedine Zidane
• “The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.”
• “There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.”  ~Usain Bolt
• “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”  ~Billie Jean King

• “Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision.”  ~Muhammad Ali
• “But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.”  ~Usain Bolt
• “It was just one of those days for him to forget and me to remember.”  ~Roger Federer
• “A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”  ~Pele
• “Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.”  ~Sachin Tendulkar

Famous Sports Quotes

• “If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.”  ~Usain Bolt
• “Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.”  ~Martina Navratilova
• “Olympics for me is love, peace, united.”  ~Jackie Chan
• “When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis.”  ~Roger Federer
• “It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.”  ~George Herbert

• “Many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.”  ~S.P. Huntington
• “My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.”  ~Sachin Tendulkar
• “Victory belongs to the most persevering.”  ~Napoleon Bonaparte
• “She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs…And she does it while smiling the whole time. It’s kind of a joke, but then again it’s not, especially if you’re a male pro trailing in her wake. To have this woman in the middle of such a suffer fest out there crushing people and smiling all the way…”  ~Lance Armstrong
• “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”  ~Amelia Earhart
• “If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.”  ~Herschel Walker