All Time Greatest Sports Winning Quotes

You can hear many sports winning quotes because most of the people have some wisdom to share but the all time greatest sports winning quotes are told by the greatest sports winners. Or maybe not, who knows but at least we should respect their sports winning quotes because they have managed to be one of the all time greatest in their own sports. So let us make the top-10 list for the all time greatest sports winning quotes.

10. I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations. - John McEnroe

John McEnroe is seven times Grand Slam tennis winner and was inducted into the international Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999. The great player must have the self confidence especially in tough situations. I think we all agree with him. During the history you have seen in many sports many players who have had huge potential but the player has never achieved the last piece of confidence. It winds on the top and the small things make the champion. We can also think at the same time how you show your confidence? The confidence must come from the deep inside you and to me it means you can concentrate to your own game performance and bring your best possible game to the court, no matter what happens around you.

The quote gets the tenth place in my all time greatest sports winning quotes because you cannot be great player without this quality but it sounds funny said by John McEnroe. John McEnroe was known during his career very temperamental player, he broke his racquet many times because he was angry to his own game or to the umpire decision and complained as a little child at times on the court but maybe he was able to bring the confidence into his game by this way. The hawk-eye system is used in tennis nowadays. The haw-eye system means that the player is able to challenge the decision made by the umpire, and the game is reviewed from the big screen. If the hawk-eye system would have been on during his game career he probably would have no chance to motivate himself getting some extra confidence by thinking even the umpire to be against him.

9.     My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus. - Carl Lewis

Carl Lewis won during his career nine Olympic gold medals and gets the ninth place in my all time greatest sports winning quotes. The piece of advice is simple as he says. Concentrate to your own race without caring what happens around you. Carl Lewis was in individual sports, the story is of course different in team sports. You have to give attention for other players but the principle is the same, focus. As great sprinter and long jumper as Carl Lewis was he had some doping suspects too, maybe he wanted to have some help to stay relaxed.

8. With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions. - Pete Rose

Pete Ross is three World Series rings winner in Major League Baseball. He played from 1963 to 1986. He gets the eight place in my all time best sports winning quotes list even his advice does not include any "bigger than the life" wisdom. Anyway Pete Ross told the truth about that, how much money the best players can do but he was not able to foresee the future. The salaries are nowadays more than ten times higher from the time of Pete Rose and Pete Rose should be one man's team with such salary. Pete Rose confessed later that he tried to get some extra incomes by gambling on baseball. Apparently he should have played at least three positions managing to have enough money without gambling.

7. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time - Vince Lombardi

The legendary American football coach knew well what it takes to win the game. His quote gets the seventh place in my all time greatest sports winning quotes list. He has many other great quotes too but simply said he had the attitude of the winner and he was able to inspire his team too by sharing his passion. Unfortunately Vince Lombardi ran out of time in the last game of his life against the cancer.

6. I'd run over my mother to win the Super Bowl - Russ Grimm

Russ Grimm wins the sixth place in my all time greatest sports winning quotes list because he tells honestly how important to win the ultimate prize is. He is not the only one. When you sacrifice your life for the sport, train the taste of blood in your mouth and maybe even the tears in your eyes. Maybe he had no so good terms with his mother because after all many sons value their mothers high but for the sake of Russ Grimm’s mother, Russ Grimm won three Super Bowl Championships as a player and so far one being a part of coaching team and his coaching career is still going on. I hope he has a good relationship with his mother

5.      I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

Michael “Air” Jordan is considered as the best basketball player ever. He flew in the air instead jumping. He came was the biggest reason for the success of Chicago Bulls but many times people forget the players around Michael Jordan. Anyway he gets the fifth place in my all time greatest sports winning quotes. His message yells, never give up. No matter what happens, after failures you just have to try again. The winners receive only new mental will to win from the failures, the losers will not try again or lose their self confidence. Michael Jordan was the winner.

4.      The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. - Babe Ruth

Babe “The Bambino” Ruth was one of the first five baseball players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was a player with great qualities and with his charismatic personality considered maybe one of the all times best baseball players. He kept in his mind the importance of the team sport. It does not matter how good player you are because you win or lose with the team. You will get the best possible result when you play for the team and when you play for the team, the others will follow your example and play for the team too. A team full of star players which are playing for themselves loses definitely against a team full of above average profile players with great team spirit where the players want to help each others. The quote of Babe Ruth is the fourth best in my all time greatest sports winning quotes list.

3. You miss 100% of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretzky

Wayne Gretzky and all time greatest sports winning quotes number three tells the same story than some previous quote already did. If you will not try, you will not win. Wayne Gretzky is considered to be the all times best ice hockey player. Wayne Gretzky retired his game career 1999 and his play number 99 is retired by all teams in National Hockey League. Wayne Gretzky was “The Great One” but he had also one quality why he was criticized, he was criticized to pass the puck too often instead taking the shot

2. Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision - Muhammad Ali

Three-time World Heavy Weight Champion Muhammed Ali has Parkinson disease nowadays after taking too many hits to his head. The boxing is kept the cruelest and the most demanding sports. You may train even a year to one single match and if you lose nobody remembers you anymore and your career is near over. Muhammed Ali was definitely one of the best. He had the spark deep inside him. He had the desire, dream and vision getting place number two in my all time greatest sports winning quotes list.

1. The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. - Author Unknown

We need no more words to the end. The quote talks for itself, what gets the first place in my all time greatest sports winning quotes list, in other words the practice makes the Champion.