Motivational Sports Quotes Keep Triathletes Moving

For new and old triathletes, motivational sports quotes can help you keep up with your triathlon training. Here is a collection of motivational quotes that will suit you for different situations. When you feel you want to “take a break” from training for your Triathlon, use one of these motivational quotes:

· “Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.” Vince Lombardi
· “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” Frank Lloyd Wright
· “You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.” Marian Wright Edelman

One of these motivational quotes can help you keep up your winning spirit:

· “If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.” Henry Ford
· “To succeed, we must first believe that we can.” Michael Korda
· “Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” Richard Bach

Use this quote pre-race when you get the jitters. Although not originally targeting sports, it certainly works for a triathlon:

· “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen

During the triathlon, one of these motivational quotes might help you:

· “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” Vince Lombardi
· “Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.” Vince Lombardi
· “If you're going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. - J. Askenberg

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. - George Herman "Babe" Ruth

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. - Chris Evert

In life as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. - Theodore Roosevelt

Hit 'em where they ain't. - Willie Keeler

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. - David Ogilvy

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation. - Tom Landry

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - Haywood Hale Brown

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. - Vince Lombardi

Ninety percent of the game is half mental. - Yogi Berra

Most ball games are lost, not won. - Casey Stengel

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose, is to learn to accept what cannot be altered, and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy. - Bobby Jones

Walter Payton
I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.


Hakeem Olajuwon
I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

Evander Holyfield
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Mike Singletary
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

Lou Holtz
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Katarina Witt
When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Seve Ballesteros
To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

Gordie Howe
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

Arnold Palmer
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Tommy Lasorda
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.

Darrell Royal
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Red Auerbach
Just do what you do best.

Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Steve Young
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Ron Jaworski
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

Wilma Rudolph
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Merlin Olsen
The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

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