Powerful Quotes from 25 Sports Legends to Ignite Your Will
It takes years of practice, hard work, sacrifice, and dedication to make a sports legend. They train day in day out and always try to push their limits in order to become the best players in the world.
During the whole process of evolving and constant self-improvement, they face lots of mental and physical obstacles, which teaches them some of the greatest lessons of life.
Thus, we have compiled 25 powerful quotes from 25 sports legends that can ignite your will to do something great in life.
Here are 25 quotes to power up from 25 sports legends to ignite your will:
1. “I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of. ”
– Cristiano Ronaldo, Football legend
2. “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
– Babe Ruth, Baseball player and greatest sports hero in American culture
3. “If it’s difficult, I will do it now. If it’s impossible, I will do it presently.”
– Sir Donald Bradman, Cricket player and the greatest batsmen of all Time
4. “If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.”
– Michael Phelps, legendary swimmer with 28 Olympic medals
5. “I always thought records were there to be broken.”
– Michael Schumacher, F1 Race Champion
6. “I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined, but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S Open I realised that winning is the biggest motivation.”
– Andy Murray, the only Tennis player who won two Olympic-Single titles
7. “A true champ can adapt to anything.”
– Floyd Mayweather, undefeated American professional boxer
8. “The most important thing is motivation. If I win just another Grand Tour it’s not going to change my career but if I achieve the double this is something people are going to remember, I take a lot of motivation from this.”
– Alberto Contador, one of the six cyclists who won all three grand tours
9. “The only thing that was on my mind was ‘I want to play for India one day,’ and I was pretty confident and sure that one day I will.”
– Sachin Tendulkar, highest run-scorer of all time in International Cricket
10. “I just never give up. I fight to the end. You can’t go out and say,’I want a bag of never-say-die spirit.’ It’s not for dale. It has to be innate.”
– Serena Williams, 23 times Tennis Grand Slam Winner
11. “Don’t dream of winning, train for it.”
– Mo Farah, four-time Olympic gold medalist in distance running
12. “Limitation live only in our mind. But if we use our imagination, our possibilities become limitless.”
– Jamie Dwyer, five-time greatest Hockey player awardee
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13. “If I have given my all and still do not win, I haven’t lost, Others might remember winning or losing; I remember the journey.”
– Anton Ohno, eight-time Olympic gold medallist in speed skating
14. “There are no environments where you’re only going to win because life isn’t like that.”
– Robert Gordon Orr, greatest Ice-Hockey player of all time
15. “I always beleive if you are stuck in a hole and maybe things are’nt going well, then you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.”
– Roger Federer, 20 times Tennis Grand Slam winner
16. “I have never competed against athletes. I have always competed against perfection.”
– Carl Lewis, nine times Olympic Gold medallist in different Track and Field events
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17. “What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.”
– Lev Yashin, greatest goalkeeper in the history of Football
18. “The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.”
– Aleksandr Karelin, Greco-Roman wrestler with 30 international gold medals
19. “It is not the strong one that wins, the one that wins is strong.”
– Franz Beckenbauer, legendary German Football Player
20. “Dreams are free. Goals have a cost. While you can daydream for free, goals don’t come without a price. Time, effort, sacrifice, and sweat. How will you pay for your goals.”
– Usain Bolt, eight-time Olympic gold medalist
21. “People used to say that boxing is for men and not for women and I thought I will show them someday. I promised myself and I proved myself.”
– Mary Kom, five-time World Amateur Boxing Champion
22. “Even though I did not have my best performance today, I kept a good fighting spirit.”
– Lin Dan, first and the only Badminton player to win all Grand Slams
23. “Everyone is facing their own problem on their own life paths, life can’t be all plain sailing. It’s important to face difficulty, set your own goals, and work your way through them one at a time.”
– Ma Lin, only Table Tennis player to win Olympics gold in singles, doubles and team event
24. “If the motivation is gone, then I’m finished.”
– Marit Bjorgen, the most successful sprinter in Cross-Country World Cup history
25. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan, Basketball legend
At last, one bonus quote
“I start eary and I stay late, day after day, year after year. It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.”
– Lionel Messi, Football Legend
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