Inspiring Athlete Quotes

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat. ~ Jesse Ventura

Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need no further practice. They will tell you that the higher you climb in proficiency and public acceptance, the greater the need for practice. ~ Eric Butterworth

I am grateful to the Lord for granting me just what I needed. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Any athlete or any actor who's preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or step on a movie set, who suffers an injury right before you're getting ready to perform or to execute - it is a massive challenge that's thrown your way that you didn't expect. ~ Dwayne Johnson

Was there anything more inspiring than being able to look up and see oneself surrounded by thousands of books all the way to the ceiling three stories above? ~ Elizabeth Camden

My favourite stuff is visual, and I always want to work with visual artwork. I think it depends on the person, but for me, photographs of an image of something interesting or inspiring is worth a lot more than words to me. I think every concept I've come up with and turned into films or that will be hopefully become a film comes from images first. ~ Neill Blomkamp

And if you can come through that and still have some connection to your joy you felt when you were a child that's a very mature kind of a joy that I find inspiring. And Jennifer Lowrence has all that in her, and I've watched her have to go through it even in the last few years. ~ David O. Russell

Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that ~ Jan Garavaglia

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane ... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate. ~ John Wooden

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special. ~ Tiger Woods

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you. ~ David Maister

I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

As a professional athlete, I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before. And not one of them has ever hurt me in a fist-fight, either. The only thing that has helped me is my skills and the only thing that hurt me is my opponent's skills. ~ Chael Sonnen

We all wanted this because let's face it, it's so inspiring and such a relief when people find a way to bear the unbearable, when you can organize things in such a way that a tiny miracle appears to have taken place and that love has once again turn out to be bigger than fear and death and blindness. ~ Anne Lamott

The awe-inspiring beauty of nature is nothing more than being flabbergasted by our ignorance of it. Good art produces the same effect; and the worst thing an artist can do is to follow the herd, because domesticated art is about as dynamic as a domesticated animal. ~ Anthony Marais

I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them and we put them up on that pedestal. ~ Frank Deford

So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [ ... ] Learning to live is learning to let go. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche

I think imperfection is beauty. Instead of being insecure about my muscles, I've learned to love them. I don't even think of it as a flaw anymore because it's made me into the athlete that I am. ~ Aly Raisman

I don't really understand why I should be a role model but I know that children do look up to me, so it is my responsibility to motivate people and be inspiring. I hope that I can do that for kids. ~ Josh Peck

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you. ~ Mark Cuban

I'm lucky because I have an athlete between my legs. ~ Willie Carson

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat. ~ Sun Tzu

He hasn't shown me anything but how he carries himself as a professional man, husband, father and athlete. Tom Brady is a pro's pro. I love the man and everything he's accomplished. ~ Randy Moss

Truth is a T-Rex. Let it out and you won't need to defend it. It'll defend itself. ~ Abhijit Naskar

God bless all people. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love keeps the heart forever warm. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete. ~ Abby Wambach

Travel has always been my way of defeating this sinking feeling, partly because travel is a form of escape, and travel itself - the elemental farewell - becomes the fugitive fantasy of a new life, travel inspiring a sense of hope. I ~ Paul Theroux

And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know. ~ Frank Bruno

The beauty of the soul enfold in spiritual-life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We don't attack any veteran, at all, ever, for their service record. We thank them. And the fact that somebody wanted to do that for political gain, shows the desperation of which some people unfortunately in the Republican Party want to keep and seize power. ~ Matt Shea

There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron ... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony. ~ Michael Eric Dyson

Freedom:

I was what I was.
I am what I am.
I will be what I will be.

I can go where I want to go.
I can do what I want to do.
I can be what I want to be. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Without adversity, we will fail to exercise our faith. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring. ~ Rachelle Lefevre