Inspiring Sports Quotes for Students: Fuel Your Passion

"Don't give up. Don't ever give up."

- Jim Valvano

"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

"The secret of winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals."

- Knute Rockne

"Success isn't final, failure isn't fatal, it's courage that counts."

- Alicia Coutts

"Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

- Muhammad Ali

"The best motivation always comes from within."

- Michael Johnson

"You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life."

- Pete Rose

"It ain't over till it's over."

- Yogi Berra

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"If you can't accept losing, you can't win."

- Vince Lombardi

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."

- Babe Ruth

"I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities."

- John Robinson

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done."

- Arnold Palmer

"The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in."

- Lou Holtz

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."

- Dan Reeves

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide."

- Mickey Mantle

"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?"

- Joe Namath

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability."

- Bruce Jenner

"The measure of who we are is how we react if something doesn’t go our way."

- Usain Bolt

"To succeed…You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."

- Tony Dorsett

"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."

- William Arthur Ward

"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."

- Ben Hogan

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

- Charles F. Kettering

"Know yourself and you will win all battles."

- Lao Tzu

"The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight."

- Arthur Ashe

"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."

- Bobby Knight

"It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square."

- Pete Rose

"The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back."

- John Madden

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning."

- Chuck Noll