Baseball Quotes
EFFORT
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky
Work hard or don't work at all.
Walter Payton
You can't think and hit at the same time
Yogi Berra
To think you can creates the force that can.
Orison Swett Marden
If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did.
Mike Ditka
No one has ever drowned in sweat.
Lou Holtz
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
An athlete's greatest glory lies not in never falling, but in rising every time he falls.
Norm Van Brocklin
Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.
Ron Blomberg
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
Bonnie Blair
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
George Halas
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
Joe DiMaggio
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.
Tony Dungy
ATTITUDE
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Pat Riley
This game is won 90 feet at a time.
Steve Stone
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
A winner's strongest muscle is her heart.
Cassie Campbell
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back
Babe Ruth
It's baseball. You've got to be the same guy every day, no matter if you go 4-for-4 or 0-for-4.
Gordon Beckham
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
John Madden
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden
You've got to believe you can win. But I believe respect for the fact that you can lose is what you always have to keep in mind so that nothing suprises you.
Andre Agassi
Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
Pat Riley
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Pat Riley
Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart.
Public Enemy
Believe in the hard work. Believe in the preparation. It's not a matter of if it'll work; it's a matter of when.
Tony Sparano
PRACTICE
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden
You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.
Chuck Noll
Good luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Darrell Royal
The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.
Earl Weaver
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
Herschel Walker
Confidence comes from being prepared.
John Wooden
Winning is the science of being totally prepared
George Allen
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden
MOTIVATION
The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Mike Ditka
Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda
To be amazing means you have to do amazing things.
Idan Ravin
Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Peter McWilliams
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Eugene F. Ware
Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.
Cal Stoll
Good luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Darrell Royal
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Fred Shero
Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, You gotta be ready to hit the curve.
Jaja Q
You can't depend on other people, you have to run your own race.
Joan Benoit-Samuelson
Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden
COACHING
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
John Wooden
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Lou Holtz
I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
Darrell Royal
CHAMPIONS
Inches make a champion.
Vince Lombardi
A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation.
Misty Hyman
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou Holtz
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
Jack Dempsey
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Muhammad Ali
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King
It's not where you start but where you finish.
April Heinrichs
If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
Chris Evert
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Lou Holtz
If you're going to be lucky you've got to think lucky.
Luke Appling
To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail
Michael Jordan
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Michael Phelps