Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to the pursuit of your goal and to excellence that will enable you to attain the success you seek. ~ Mario Andretti

Show me a good loser in professional sports and I’ll show you an idiot. ~ Leo Durocher

I’ve made so many mistakes that if I don’t make the same ones twice, we’re going to come pretty close to winning. ~ Paul “Bear” Bryant

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood. ~ Pat Conroy

Defeat is worse than death, because you have to live with defeat. ~ Bill Musselman

I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

There is only one person who can define success in your life—and that’s you. ~ Michael Jordan

I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures. ~ Earl Warren

Sports should always be fun. ~ Charles Mann

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. ~ Ernest Hemingway

In the field of sports you are accepted for what you do rather than who you are. ~ Althea Gibson Darben

It ain't over till it’s over. ~ Yogi Berra

We’re all blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

Sports is the toy department of life. ~ George F. Will

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

You’ve got to win in sports—that’s talent—but you’ve also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience. ~ Billie Jean King