Best Inspiring Quotes from Famous Athletes

“I don’t believe there is such a thing as a ‘born’ soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents.”— Pele

“I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn’t been a soccer player.”— Pele

“No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.”— Pele

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”— Pele

“Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.”— Pele

“The first World Cup I remember was in 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.”— Pele

“Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.”— Pele

“How much soccer training is needed to become a top player? It depends on the efficiency of your training routine.”— Pele

“Another reason why I am always close to people, is because communication is very important. When I stopped to play soccer I continued to… work with UNICEF.”— Pele

“I was barely 14 years old. But let’s be fair, I wasn’t the only one who did it.”— Pele

“Be strong. Be brave and go beyond.” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“Maybe They Have Me Because I’m Too Good.” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“Without football, my life is worth nothing.” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“To be the best you need the best.” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“I like to impose my own style of play.” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“If we can’t help our family, who are we going to help?” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve.” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“Don’t let small obstacles be in the way of being victorious. Remember you are stronger than the challenges you face.” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“We don’t want to tell our dreams. We want to show them.” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.” —  Cristiano Ronaldo

“I should play and enjoy the game and inspires the next generation.” — Virat Kohli

“When you are fit, you feel as if you can do anything.”— Virat Kohli

“No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.”— Virat Kohli

“I like people who don’t need everyone to like them.” — Virat Kohli

“I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.” — Virat Kohli

“They picture me as someone who is wrong, and eventually that becomes right after a certain point of time.” — Virat Kohli

“Never give up. Today is hard tomorrow will be worse. But the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” — Virat Kohli

“A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.” ― Virat Kohli

“In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game.” — Virat Kohli

“I am a guy who likes to play with intensity. Once that is gone, I don’t know what I am going to do on the field.”— Virat Kohli

“Goals are only important if they win games.” — Lionel Messi

“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.” — Lionel Messi

“My motivation comes from playing the game I love.” — Lionel Messi

“You can overcome everything if only you love something enough.” — Lionel Messi

“The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instinct.” — Lionel Messi

“Sometimes you have to accept you can’t win all the time.” — Lionel Messi

“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.” — Lionel Messi

“The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.” — Lionel Messi

“I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I’m not enjoying it, I will leave football.” — Lionel Messi

“Say more with your feet than you ever could with words.” — Lionel Messi

“I don’t consider myself the best, I think I’m just another player. On the pitch, we are all the same when the game begins.” — Lionel Messi

“Think positive and have confidence. We have to improve and be in the best shape possible for the next game.” — Lionel Messi

“I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.” — Lionel Messi

“I’m the same kind of guy before all this happened.”— Micheal Phelps 

“The more you dream the more you achieve.”— Micheal Phelps 

“I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.”— Micheal Phelps 

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”— Micheal Phelps 

“Swimming is normal for me. I’m relaxed. I’m comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It’s my home.”— Micheal Phelps 

“I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.”— Micheal Phelps 

“I can’t remember the last day I didn’t train.”— Micheal Phelps 

“I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the master’s. I want to go… anywhere.”— Micheal Phelps 

“I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late-night talk show.”— Micheal Phelps 

“The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real.” — Kobe Bryant

“Everything negative, pressure, challenges are all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant

“Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. It doesn’t make any sense to do it.” — Kobe Bryant

“Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.” — Kobe Bryant

“The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.”

“When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.”

“Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.”

“A Wilson tennis ball sitting at the intersection of two lines on a tennis court.”

“Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.”

“I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.”

“A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.”

“You have to do something in your life that is honourable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself.”

“A baseball player holding two baseballs during a New York Yankees practice”

“There may be people that have more talent than you, but theres no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.”

“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”

“One man practising sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.”

“I work hard, and I do good, and I’m going to enjoy myself. I’m not going to let you restrict me.”