16 Of The Greatest Motivational Sports Speeches In History

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There are a lot of people out here tonight who think you are the least likely candidate to be successful. 

“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.”

— Lou Gehrig, nesn.com

Tagged: Motivational Speeches, Motivational Quotes, Drive, Determination

“I never really allowed myself to believe that I might win because it seemed like such a faraway dream when you look at the names on the Vezina Trophy. They’re legends, and it’s humbling to even be mentioned in the same sentence. I’ve been more worried about getting my name on a roster than I have be…”

— Tim Thomas, nesn.com

Tagged: Motivational Sports, Sports Speeches, motivation

“We go to different schools, difficult situations, but that’s not what makes us weak. That’s what makes us stronger than everybody else. This should be your motivation. This is not an excuse. Humility. That’s why we get in this dirt. That’s why we get on this hill. So we remain humble.”

— Coach Ed Dunn, aplus.com

Tagged: motivational sports quotes, Motivational Sports, Motivational Speeches

“Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain’t got nothing to do with nobody else. So that team that think they ready to seen you? They think what they seen on film. They ain’t saw what film shows. Because every day is a new day.…”

— Ray Lewis, huffingtonpost.com

Tagged: Motivational Speeches, Motivational Quotes, Dream

“Tonight is not about the past and it's not about the future. It's about right now. And you guys have gotta want this night to last forever.”

— Billy Donovan, amazon.com

Tagged: motivational sports quotes, Sports Quotes, Sports

“At that moment a voice came over me and said, Look up, get up, and don't ever give up. You tell everyone or anyone that has ever doubted, thought they did not measure up or wanted to quit, you tell them to look up, get up and don't ever give up.”

— Michael Irvin, espn.com

Tagged: Sports, Motivational, Sports Quotes

“There are a lot of people out here tonight who think you are the least likely candidate to be successful...Now they're bigger and they got athletes going to Division I schools, we can see that and so can everybody else. But nobody can see the intangible with us...be the intangible tonight.”

— Tony Arcuri, aplus.com

Tagged: Motivational Sports, Sports Quotes, motivation

“Great moments are born from great opportunity, and that's what you have here tonight, boys. That's what you've earned here tonight. One game; if we played them ten times, they might win nine. But not this game, not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight we stay with them, and we shut them dow…”

— Herb Brooks, sites.google.com

Tagged: Herb Brooks Speech

“When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.”

— Yogi Berra, aplus.com

Tagged: Motivational, Sports Quotes, Speeches, motivation, Drive

“If you don't feel those butterflies in your stomach now...when we walk out that door, they turn to dragons. Because they get bigger and they get stronger and we use them. And those dragons are going to breathe fire.”

— Coach Scott Quinnell, aplus.com

Tagged: motivational sports quotes, Sports, Believe In Yourself

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time. Winning is a habit.”

— Coach Vince Lombardi, vincelombardi.com

Tagged: Winning, champions, Habit, Sports Speeches, Motivational Sports

“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about…”

— Rocky Balboa, amazon.com

Tagged: Best Movie Quotes, Movie Quotes, Inspirational Speeches

“You listen. And you take a lesson from the dead. If we don't come together, right now, on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed -- just like they were. I don't care if you like each other or not. But you will respect each other. And maybe -- I don't know -- maybe we'll learn to play this ga…”

— Denzel Washington, amazon.com

Tagged: Motivational Speeches, Motivational Quotes, motivation

“This is our past, gentlemen. This is where we have been. This is how we got here. This is who we are. Today, I want to talk about our opponent this afternoon. They're bigger, faster, stronger, more experienced and on paper, they're just better. And they know it, too. But I wanna tell you something t…”

— Jack Lengyel, genius.com

Tagged: Motivational Sports, Motivational Speeches, motivation

“It's not about talent. It's about heart. It's about who can go out there and play the hardest. They're not gonna give you anything. So you gotta go out there and you gotta take it.”

— Josh Lucus, amazon.com

Tagged: Sports Quotes, Motivational Speeches, Sports