Motivational quotes

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
–George Herman “Babe” Ruth
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
–Hank Aaron
The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.
–George Shultz
Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don’t want.
–Hannah Whitall Smith
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
–Michael Jordan
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
–Queen Victoria
I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
–H. Jackson Browne
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.
–Brian Tracy
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, thats the day you start to the top.
–O.J. Simpson
When you win, nothing hurts.
–Joe Namath
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
–Jan McKeithen
You can’t be a winner and be afraid to lose.
–Charles Lynch
Never let defeat have the last word.
–Tibetan Proverb
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
– Anonymous
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
–Vince Lombardi
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
–Vince Lombardi
Success demands singleness of purpose.
–Vince Lombardi
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
–Winston Churchill
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
–Abraham Lincoln
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing – the result.
–Vince Lombardi
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
–Vincent T. Lombardi
The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.
– John Wooden
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
–Joe Paterno
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
–Elbert Hubbard
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
–Will Rogers
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
–Bruce Jenner
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
–Lou Holtz
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
– Michael Johnson
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
– Robert Fripp
Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.
–Dell Crossword
Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
–Anonymous
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
–Thomas Jefferson
The harder you train, the easier the game.
–Author Unknown
Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.
–Author Unknown
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
–Billie Jean King
If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
–Author Unknown
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
–Muhammad Ali
Act as though it is impossible to fail.
–Anonymous
Others can stop you temporarily — you are the only one who can do it permanently.
–Zig Ziglar
View every problem as an opportunity…
–Joseph Sugarman
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
–Lou Holtz
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
–Anonymous
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
–Babe Ruth
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
–George Brett
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.
–Jim Murray
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
–Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
–Unknown