Sports Quotes – 1

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

- Haywood Hale Broun

The only one who can beat me is me.

- Michael Johnson

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

- Michael Jordan

They don’t give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.

- Michael Johnson

Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.

- Roger Bannister (After becoming the first person to break the four-minute mile, 1952)

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

- Billie Jean King

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

Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.

-William A. Ward

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

-Vince Lombardi

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

-Earvin “Magic” Johnson