The 90 best phrases of improvement (and motivation) in sports

Playing a sport or sporting activity has many health benefits, but It also demands effort, dedication and a positive attitude so that the result is the desired one., there are times when everything seems to collapse or have a bad day and this is where a word or phrase of overcoming is a fundamental support.

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Best phrases for overcoming sports

To learn more about the benefits that sports practice brings, we bring below a compilation with the best phrases for overcoming sports.

1. Go for it now. The future is not promised to anyone. (Wyn Dyer)

Do it today you don't know if tomorrow you'll be there.

2. I have failed over and over again in my life, that is why I have achieved success. (Michael Jordan)

It doesn't matter if failure comes, the important thing is not to make room for it.

3. Talent depends on inspiration, but the effort belongs to each one. (Pep Guardiola)

Inspiration is important, but only with effort you get ahead.

4. I can because I think I can. (Caroline Marin)

Confidence in our talents is the most important thing to overcome any difficulty.

5. If you don't have confidence, you will always find a way not to win. (Carl Lewis)

If you don't trust your abilities, there will always be a sabotage.

6. If you are afraid of failing, you will probably fail. (Kobe Bryant)

Do not be afraid to fail, that is part of life and it is very difficult to eliminate it.

7. It's not about if you get knocked down; it's about whether you get up. (VinceLombardi)

It doesn't matter if you fall, the most important thing is to focus on getting up.

8. Good is not good when better is expected. (Vin Scully)

Always look to try a little harder.

9. Do not count the days make the days count. (Muhammad Ali)

Live today, yesterday is over and tomorrow may not come.

10. You can't put any limits on yourself. There is nothing impossible. (Usain Bolt)

Nothing is impossible if you have the strength to overcome it.

11. You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing with yourself, with your highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is a real joy. (Arthur Ashe)

Your adversary to defeat is yourself.

12. You can be as virtuous as you want, but you are nothing without your team. (Zinedine Zidane)

If you play as a team, you are part of it and you must give your best for everyone.

13. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to improve. (Pat Riley)

Do not stay with what you know, seek to learn a little more every day.

14. A champion is someone who gets up when he can't. (Jack Dempsey)

When you think you can't take it anymore, stop and move on, that's being a champion.

15. Whatever you do, do it intensely. (Robert Henry)

Practice with passion and you will see the results.

16. Adversity makes some men break; others break their limits. (William ArthurWard)

Don't let problems influence your performance.

17. Your biggest opponent is not the other person. It is human nature. (Bobby Knight)

We must constantly overcome fear and the temptation to stay alone in the comfort zone.

18. I hated every minute of training, but I said, "don't quit." He suffers now and lives the rest of your life as a champion. (Muhammad Ali)

Constant training can be difficult, but the rewards are great.

19. A champion is not afraid of losing. (Billie Jean Moffitt King)

Don't let the fear of losing make you fail.

20. Pursue a big decisive goal with strength and determination. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Go all out and reach the goal.

21. It is not the will to win that matters, everyone has it. It is the willingness to prepare to win that matters. (Paul Bryant)

To win you also have to prepare.

22. A trophy attracts dust. Memories last forever. (AndySmith)

Do not focus on the award, but on being an example to follow.

23. Never lower your head. Never give up and sit down to cry. Find another way. (SatchelPaige)

Even when the outlook is dark, don't give up.

24. Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden)

Don't let your weaknesses stand in your way of success.

25. Persistence can turn failure into extraordinary achievement. (Matt Biondi)

Work every day with dedication and the results will be extraordinary.

26. The more I practice, the luckier I get. (Gary Player)

Perseverance and dedication have their reward.

27. Excellence is not a one-day act, but a habit. You are what you repeat on many occasions. (Shaquille O'Neal)

Develop a habit and you will see that everything is better.

28. In life, many people know what to do, but few do what they know. (Tony Robbins)

Do not go after others, strive to be the first.

29. Age is not a barrier. It is a limitation that you put in your mind. (Jackie Joyner-Kersee)

Nothing is impossible if you really believe it.

30. No limits can be placed on our dreams. The more we dream, the further the goal is, (Michael Phelps)

Don't limit your dreams, just make them possible.

31. Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn't work hard. (Tim Notke)

Talent is important, but hard work is superior.

32. Never give up! Failure and rejection are just the first step to success. (Jim Valvano)

Even if you fail, never give up, keep going.

33. Every day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. (Eric Mangini)

Make an effort every day and you will see great results.

34. Trust me, the reward is not that great without the fight. (Wilma Rudolf)

When you strive to reach the goal, the prize is much greater.

35. As long as we persevere and resist we can get what we want. (MikeTyson)

Perseverance allows you to resist any difficulty that arises.

36. If you're afraid of failure, you don't deserve to succeed. (Charles Barkly)

Failure should not be a reason to give up.

37. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does because that will make you a winner. (Venus-Williams)

Self-confidence is the main tool to achieve success.

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

Everything you do, do it with passion.

39. Champions keep playing until they get it right. (Billie Jean King)

Despite the triumphs, you have to keep preparing until you are the best.

40. Do not measure yourself by what you have achieved, but by what you should have achieved with your ability. (John Wooden)

Aspire to achieve the unattainable.

41. The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can imagine the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe it 100 percent. (ArnoldSchwarzenegger)

Do not put barriers to your mind.

42. Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears. (LairdHamilton)

If you think you will fail that will happen, if you think you will be a winner then it will come true.

43. It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. (Babe Ruth)

Not giving up, even if the scenario is not ideal, makes a person someone who can never be defeated.

44. What you lack in talent can be made up of desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time. (Don Zimmer)

Even if you're not very good, effort and hard work will make a difference.

45. The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be a star. Keep looking, keep believing and don't lose faith in yourself. (Neymar)

Whatever happens, don't lose faith in yourself.

46. When people are successful, it's because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success. (Diego Maradona)

Success is not something that has to do with luck, but with continuous work.

47. Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you have to, but never give up. (Dean Karnazes)

Hard moments will always exist, that doesn't mean you have to give up, on the contrary, overcome every obstacle.

48. If you train hard, you will not only be tough, you will be tough to beat. (Herschel Walker)

Continuous and hard work will make you someone difficult to defeat.

49. Every time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, you're wasting your time on Earth. (Robert Clement)

Make a difference, seek to be an example to follow.

50. There are only two options regarding compromise. You are in or you are out. There is no such thing as life in between. (Pat Riley)

If you commit to something, it is to do it, do not fail.

51. You can't get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good. (Jerry West)

Training only when we feel good doesn't make sense, it works at all times, especially on those days when you don't want to train.

52. Set high goals and don't stop until you reach them. (Bo Jackson)

Seek to achieve bigger goals, go ahead, you can.

53. Do not measure yourself by what you have achieved, but by what you should have achieved with your ability. (John Wooden)

Try a little harder every day.

54. If you don't prepare, you will be prepared to fail. (Mark Spitz)

If you don't train every day, then failure will knock on your door.

55. Trust me, the reward is not that great without the fight. (Wilma Rudolf)

Nothing that is not achieved with effort is not rewarding.

56. I start early and stay late, day after day, year after year. It took me 17 years and 114 days to succeed overnight. (Lionel Messi)

Victory is not free, you have to work hard to achieve it.

57. The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness of winning. (Pele)

If a challenge is difficult, the fight to win is food.

58. An athlete cannot run with money in his pocket. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. (Emile Zatopek)

That the goal is to achieve victory, not the money that can be obtained from it.

59. You can always be better. (Tiger Woods)

Every day work hard and do your best.

60. There may be people who are more talented than you, but there is no excuse for anyone to work harder than you. (Derek Jeter)

Even when you have few skills, don't give up trying.

61. A champion is someone who is not satisfied with that day's training, that day's competition, that day's performance. They always strive to be better. They do not live in the past. (Brianna Scurry)

Every day is a new dawn and a new workout begins.

62. When you think about quitting, think about why you started. (Mike Jovanni)

If failure and hard training make you give up along the way, sit down for a moment and think about why you started practicing it.

63. To discover your true potential, you must first find your own limits, and then you must have the courage to overcome them. (Picabo Street)

To be a winner you must know your limits and work to overcome them.

64. To be number one you have to have a passion for running. Love the morning, love the road, love the rhythm on the track. (Pat Tyson)

If you want to succeed in sports, you have to love training, competitions, failure and triumph.

65. I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. (Bruce Jenner)

Work both the mind and the body.

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

Nothing is impossible, if you have the determination to do it.

67. No one who has given the best of himself has regretted it. (George Hallas)

If you give your best in each training, I assure you that you will not regret it.

68. Perseverance can transform failure into extraordinary achievement. (Marv Levy)

Failure is also a way of learning.

69. When you have something to prove, there is nothing bigger than a challenge. (Terry Bradshaw)

If a challenge comes to you, face it and show that you have the skills to overcome it.

70. The only way to prove that you are a good athlete is to lose. (Ernie Banks)

Failure is part of the life of an athlete.

71. Win if you can, lose if you have to, but never give up! (Cameron Trammell)

Even when you are afraid, never give up.

72. If you fell yesterday, get up today. (H. g. Wells)

Don't stay on the floor, get up and move on.

73. Records are there to be broken. (Michael Schumacher)

If others could, why not you?

74. It is not the will to win that matters, everyone has it. It is the willingness to prepare to win that matters. (Paul Bryant)

Do not focus on winning, but on preparing yourself more and more.

75. Today I will do what others will not do, for tomorrow I will achieve what others cannot. (Jerry Rice)

If you work twice as hard, then you will be above others.

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

Strive and you will be great.

77. Perhaps the most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of a race is experience. But once you have the basics, gaining experience is a matter of time. (Greg Lemond)

Don't feel bad if you're just starting out in a sport, just give it your best shot.

78. Some people want something to happen, others dream of what will happen, others make it happen. (Michael Jordan)

If you want to be a champion, work for it.

79. Pursue a big decisive goal with strength and determination. (Carl von Clausewitz)

If you want something, give your best effort to get it.

80. Don't ask what your teammates can do for you. Ask yourself what you can do for your teammates. (Magic Johnson)

Seek to help your team at all times.

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

Part of success is loving and enjoying what you do.

82. I have learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. (Tom Landry)

Defeats also bring great lessons.

83. I always tell children, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one doing the talking. (Gordie Howe)

In sports, it's good to hear from the experts.

84. A champion is afraid of losing. The others are afraid of winning. (Billie Jean King)

Only he who is great is afraid of defeat.

85. What to do with a mistake?: recognize it, recognize it, learn from it, forget it. (DeanSmith)

If you make a mistake, learn from it and move on.

86. I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. On cue, I turn on the match. (Mia Ham)

Every day you have to train to overcome obstacles.

87. A champion is someone who gets up when the other can't. (WilliamHarrison)

He not only seeks to highlight his qualities, but also to help the rest of his team.

88. If you have everything under control, it means that you are not moving fast enough. (Mario Andretti)

You always have to go wrong in a competition.

89. I never leave the pitch thinking I could have done more, and that gives me peace of mind. (Peyton Manning)

At all times do your best.

90. The most important thing in sport is not to win, but to participate, because the essential thing in life is not success, but to strive for it. (Baron Pierre de Coubertin)

Don't think about the goal, focus on the path, which is where you learn everything you need and enjoy what you do.