Motivational Quotes for Athletes

Motivational quotes for athletes by athletes.If you want to take your mission in life to the next level,
if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise,
don't look outside yourself. Look inside.
Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you
that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.
Bruce Jenner

Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

Never give up,
which is the lesson I learned from boxing.
As soon as you learn to never give up,
you have to learn the power and wisdom
of unconditional surrender,
and that one doesn't cancel out the other;
they just exist as contradictions.
Kris Kristofferson

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties,
only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
Alain de Botton

More Motivational Quotes for Athletes

Every time you acquire a new interest,
even more, a new accomplishment,
you increase your power of life.
William Lyon Phelps



Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

The mind is the limit.
As long as the mind can envision
the fact that you can do something,
you can do it,
as long as you really believe
100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nature arms each man with some faculty
which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The quality of a person's life
is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence,
regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ.
You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.
Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.
Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence
or get too confident.
Nancy Kerrigan



Things don't go wrong and break your heart
so you can become bitter and give up.
They happen to break you down and build you up
so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Charles "Tremendous" Jones

Leaders aren't born, they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal,
or any goal.
Vince Lombardi

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe

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.
Emmitt Smith

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