Sports teach us the principles to win the game of life, but to succeed in any game, what is needed the most is inspiration and dedication. Here are some of the inspirational quotes that would ignite the fire of determination in any sports person. "Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time." ~ Lou Brock "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." ~ Satchel Paige "When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important." ~ Bill Shoemaker "It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca "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 "The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players." ~ Don Coryell, ex-San Diego Chargers Coach "When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor." ~ Pat Riley "Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks." ~ Joe Paterno "It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself." ~ Muhammad Ali "If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat." ~ Herschel Walker "Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time." ~ Greg LeMond "Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates." ~ Magic Johnson "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." ~ Bo Jackson "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca "Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence." ~ George F. Will "The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before." ~ Steve Young "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 "I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshipers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena." ~ Charles Barkley "In war there is no substitute for victory." ~ Douglas MacArthur "Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character." ~ T. Alan Armstrong "You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit." ~ Joe Paterno "Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary." ~ Ray Knight "Everyone has limits on the time they can devote to exercise, and cross-training simply gives you the best return on your investment balanced fitness with minimum injury risk and maximum fun." ~ Paula Newby-Fraser