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Quotes About Motivation

Everything you need is already inside.
~ Bill Bowerman
Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.
~ Mia Hamm
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
~ Bear Bryant
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
~ Wilma Rudolph
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
~ Ara Parseghian
I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
~ Pat Summitt
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.
~ Yogi Berra
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
~ Pat Summitt
The more you dream the more you achieve.
~ Michael Phelps
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
~ Steve Young
Great moments are born from great opportunities.
~ Herb Brooks
Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion
~ Burt Lancaster
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
~ Don Shula
To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
~ Frank Shorter
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
~ Amby Burfoot
I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.
~ Larry Bird
Channel your energy. Focus.
~ Carl Lewis
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
~ Jerry Tarkanian
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
~ Willie Mays
The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.
~ Dean Karnazes
I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
~ Bill Bowerman
There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.
~ Linford Christie
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement
~ Pierre de Coubertin
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.
~ Don Coryell