“When it’s hard for me, I always remind myself that if I give up, it won’t get better,” said world boxing legend Mike Tyson. We have selected the most motivating statements from famous Russian and foreign athletes so that you never give up.

Mike Tyson

If a person gets up after falling, it's not physics, it's character.

Mike Tyson, from the age of ten, helped his older comrades steal, and suffered beatings at home. Mike decided to become a boxer when he was 13, and won his first victory in the ring at 15.

Without discipline you are nothing! Someday you'll meet a tough guy who can take your best hits. And he will continue to advance because he is strong. Do not lose your fortitude and courage. This is the time when discipline comes into play.

Tyson will face problems with the law, he will be treated for alcohol and drug addiction. Nevertheless, “Iron Mike” would become one of the most famous boxers in the world and set several world records.

The coach always told me: “You have to beat everyone, you are able to do it, but what happens when they beat you, can you handle it?” And I know I can.

Muhammad Ali

The impossible is nothing.

Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, in his first Olympic Games flew wearing a parachute - the future superhero suffered from aerophobia and refused to board a plane without “safety net.” Then there was an Olympic gold medal and three world heavyweight titles.

The most difficult fight is when you have to fight laziness for happiness.

Ali was a pacifist who refused to join the army, he advocated for the rights of African Americans and threw his Olympic medal into the river after a waitress refused to serve him a glass of water because of the color of his skin. He is an idol of several generations and an author famous phrase“the impossible is possible,” which in the original sounds even more precise: “the impossible is nothing.”

Champions do not become gyms. A champion is born from what is inside a person - desires, dreams, goals.

Lev Yashin

Anyone who wants to achieve convincing victories must try to jump above his head

Olympic champion and World Cup bronze medalist Lev Yashin was the only goalkeeper to ever receive the Golden Ball, a prize awarded annually to the best European football player. This man knew what it meant to not give up. When at the very beginning of Yashin’s career, football did not work out, he did not leave the sport, switched to hockey and even achieved serious success there - he won the USSR Cup.

Any, even the happiest finish is only a precursor to the next start, and past victories, no matter how significant they may be, do not provide any additional privileges.

Pele

The more difficult the victory was, the more happy you are that you achieved it.

Pele (real name Edson Arantis do Nascimento) grew from a simple Brazilian boy who worked as a shoe shiner to become the best football player of the 20th century. His nickname - the nickname Pele was given to him by one of his friends as a child - turned into a name known to everyone. He won three World Cups and received the unofficial title of King of Football.

Success is not an accident. It's about hard work, perseverance, training, study, sacrifice and most of all, loving what you do or are learning to do.

Larisa Latynina

Teach an athlete to fight to the end for any place, and he will be able to fight for first.

Gymnast Larisa Latynina has nine gold, five silver and four bronze Olympic medals. Her name is included in the Guinness Book of Records and in the list of outstanding athletes that adorns the Olympic Hall of Fame in New York.

Never think that you have lost a competition if you still have one last exercise left.

Latynina became the world champion while she was four weeks pregnant. And two months later she returned to the sport again.

One day, while performing a difficult jump on a log, I landed on top of it and broke my tailbone. As a result, I couldn’t sit for a month and stood against the wall during lectures at the institute. But I didn't cry. You can cry from pain, resentment, even from fatigue, but I never cried - neither in training nor in competitions.

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Michael Jordan

I can accept failure, but I cannot accept not trying.

The most famous basketball player on the planet, Michael Jordan, knows how to achieve his goals. He is a two-time Olympic champion, a six-time champion of the coolest basketball league - the NBA and one of the richest athletes.

If anything moves me forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength.

Jordan managed not only to become one of the most popular athletes and turn his name into a brand, but also to earn a fortune. Forbes magazine estimated his 2015 income at $110 million.

When you go towards your goal, an obstacle stands in your way. I've encountered them, everyone has. But don't let obstacles stop you. When faced with a wall, do not turn back, do not retreat. Find a way to overcome this barrier, work on it.

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Kostya Tszyu

Even difficulties in life are needed for something.

When in an interview with the absolute world boxing champion Kostya Tszyu asked about his life credo, he replied that his motto is “never give up.” In life, an athlete who has won 270 out of 282 fights prefers not to use force. But in training and in the ring he gives it his all.

Someone says that I am talented, my greatest talent was that I could work more than others. Plow.

Tszyu believes that failures can teach you a lot. If you can handle them.

A lost fight always makes you realize that you are doing something wrong.

In this article we will talk to you about sports, but not about how to do exercises or eat correctly so that our body has an attractive shape, but about what famous people say about this activity.

Sports in our life

Each of us in our lives has probably made the decision more than once to start doing or going for a run, and some have even implemented such plans. Unfortunately, even fewer people give sports a truly significant place in their lives. I would like to talk about what statements there are about the sport of great people and what they mean. Perhaps, after we understand the deep meaning that lies in in simple words, for someone this will give them the opportunity to look at their life outside of sports with different eyes, and they will make the right choice.

What does sport give us?

In general, we have been familiar with the benefits of playing sports since childhood, because in early age caring mothers tried to give their children to sport sections or various dance and gymnastics clubs. After all, boys kick the ball around the football field with great pleasure, and girls jump with skipping ropes and ribbons. Probably, already at this age they need to be introduced to the benefits of an active lifestyle and talk about sports spoken by their favorite athletes and idols.

Few active children are familiar with the concept of “diet,” which cannot be said about adults who are always busy in the daily hustle and bustle. With a problem excess weight every third or even second inhabitant of the planet over 30 years of age faces, and all because we prefer to relieve so-called depression and a tense state of mind with the help of alcohol or a portion of our favorite and clearly unhealthy dish.

The best medicine

“A thousand medicines can be replaced by physical exercise, but there is no medicine that can replace exercise,” said the Italian physiologist Angelo Mosso. There is nothing to add here; indeed, how many human diseases can be avoided if even people who have had a heart attack are recommended by doctors to take walks in the fresh air every evening. Similar statements it is necessary not only to know about sports, but to write it on a piece of paper and hang it in a visible place, so that every day, before opening the refrigerator or brushing our teeth, we read and remember that “movement is life, and life is movement.” " This is exactly what the old but wise saying says. It’s hardly worth reminding us of what a sedentary lifestyle can lead to, because, hand on heart, we all know very well that there is nothing good in sedentary work. The result is varicose veins, intestinal problems, and disruption of the cardiovascular system. The list goes on and on.

Statements on sports topics in literature

To confirm all of the above, here is another statement on the topic of sports. “Thanks to abstinence and physical exercise, humanity can live without medicine,” these words belong to the famous writer, playwright, poet, politician of the 18th century and just to a wise man Addison Joseph.

However, even in ancient times BC. e. Horace said wonderful words that contain more than understandable truths: “If you don’t run while you’re healthy, you’ll have to run when you’re sick!” And this is actually true: analyze life situations, which you have probably encountered. Only when it becomes unbearable for us to endure pain or discomfort in the body, we turn to doctors, and they begin to refer us to various studies and procedures. In such situations, we are ready to spend any money if only we would be cured and we could return to our normal life again.

In fact, a lot of words about sports were said by famous poets and writers, and the great A.S. Pushkin and everyone’s beloved Vladimir Vysotsky did not shy away from this topic.

Athletes about sports

Perhaps more convincing for you will be statements about sports belonging to the athletes themselves, who are familiar with this situation, so to speak, from the inside. They don’t talk about health, because for them sports and health are one whole, and they have already made a choice long ago, but they share their thoughts on how to achieve goals and cope with difficulties that arise on the way to achieving great heights.

Mike Tyson said: “As long as we are persistent and persistent, we can achieve all our desires.”

And the words of the world famous basketball player Michael Jordan can be wonderful support: “I suffer defeats day after day. And that’s why I’m a champion!”

“Victory does not teach the way defeat can teach”; "Exercise is the cure for bad mood"; “The horizontal bar is one of the best equipment for creating an ideal physique”; “Train with those who are stronger. Love the one you can't. Don’t give up where others give up” - none of this is easy beautiful sayings about sports, these are the words that you should repeat to yourself like a mantra if you decide to take care of your health.

I would like to conclude my discussion on the topic of sports with the words of the laureate Nobel Prize Jonah Galsworthy: “The saving force in our world is sport: optimism still rises above it, the enemy is respected and the rules are followed, regardless of whose side wins.”

They are so different, but they all contain the same meaning: “Sport is our everything.”

Useful: Sports for life: Aphorisms about sports

Aphorisms ( Catchphrases), dedicated to sports

"Life requires movement."

ARISTOTLE -

« Motus vita est. (Movement is life)."

LATIN APHORISM -

“Oh sport! You are peace, progress, joy, justice, challenge, nobility, pleasure, architect, fruitfulness.”

PIERRE DE COUBERTIN -

"The important thing is not to win but to take part."

PIERRE DE COUBERTIN -

“For proportionality, beauty and health, not only education in the field of science and art is required, but also lifelong physical exercise and gymnastics.”

PLATO -

“Gymnastics is the healing part of medicine.”

PLATO -

"An agile, fast person
He is proud of his slender figure.
Sitting for a century
Subject to all flaws."

AVICENNA -

“Be friends with gymnastics, always be cheerful,
And you will live a hundred years, and maybe more.
Potions and powders are the wrong path to health.
Heal yourself with nature - in the garden and in the open field.”

AVICENNA -

“A person who exercises moderately and in a timely manner does not need any treatment aimed at eliminating the disease.”

AVICENNA -

"With help physical exercise and abstinence, most people can do without medicine.”

JOSEPH ADDISON -

“I want to use full-body gymnastics to make him more balanced.”

SOCRATES -

“If you don’t run while you’re healthy, you’ll have to run when you’re sick.”

HORACE -

“You must definitely shake yourself up physically in order to be mentally healthy.”

LEV NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY -

“The physical education of a child is the basis for everything else.”

“Sport creates a culture of optimism, a culture of cheerfulness.”

ANATOLY VASILIEVICH LUNACHARSKY -

“Gymnastics prolongs a person’s youth!”

JOHN LOCKE -

“Gymnastics, with the flight of beauty, highlights the body’s perfection.”

“Sport is remarkable for the improvisation of skill.”

GEORGE MOISEEVICH ALEXANDROV -

“Sport improves physical qualities and tests moral ones.”

GEORGE MOISEEVICH ALEXANDROV -

"In a healthy body healthy mind."

JUVENAL -

"The most effective medicine for physical health there is a cheerful and cheerful mood of spirit.”

CHRISTOPHER JAKOB BOSTROM -

“Gymnastics, physical exercise, walking should firmly enter the everyday life of everyone who wants to maintain working capacity, health, full and joyful life.»

The collection includes quotes about sports with meaning from great people, as well as sayings from athletes about the sports lifestyle:

• After walking and swimming, I feel that I am younger, and most importantly, that I have massaged and refreshed my brain with bodily movements. Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
• But in general, the conclusion is this: walk and you will be happy, walk and you will be healthy. Charles Dickens
• I'm not into physical exercise. To make me bend over, you'd have to scatter diamonds all over the floor. Joan Rivers
• Aerobics: a series of grueling exercises designed to convert fats, starches and sugars into suffering, pain and cramps.

• I believe that the merciful Lord has every heartbeat counted for each of us, and I'll be damned if I start wasting mine running up and down the street. Neil Armstrong
• Jogging is an activity for people who are not advanced enough to watch morning television. Victoria Wood
• A person who goes in for sports can even endure cultural life. Oliver Hassenkamp
• Great sport begins where health care ends. Bertolt Brecht
  
• The physical education of a child is the basis for everything else. Without the correct use of hygiene in the development of a child, without properly organized physical education and sports, we will never get a healthy generation. Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky
• In a healthy body healthy mind. Juvenal
• Thousands and thousands of times I have restored health to my patients through exercise. Galen
• In advanced cities, cycling is encouraged, and in the most advanced cities, marathon running is encouraged. Marcel Achard
• A professional athlete: a public whore who is required to behave honestly. Jean Giraudoux
• Gymnastics is complete nonsense. Healthy people do not need it, but it is contraindicated for sick people. Henry Ford
• Sport creates a culture of optimism, a culture of cheerfulness. Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky
• Gymnastics prolongs a person’s youth. John Locke
• Sport is becoming a favorite subject of thought and will soon become the only method of thinking. Vasily Klyuchevsky
• Gymnastics, physical exercise, and walking should become firmly established in the everyday life of everyone who wants to maintain efficiency, health, and a full and joyful life. Hippocrates
• Sport is physical education taken to the extreme. Leo the Brief
• Alpine skiing is a downhill race for money. "Kommersant - Money"
  
• Five miles of brisk walking will do more for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult man than all the drugs and psychologists in the world. Paul Dudley White
• If people at 30, 40 and even 50 do not exercise, this is a prejudice inherited from the old days, when an idle life was considered the ideal of well-being. Valentin Vladislavovich Gorinevsky
• A professional is an athlete who does not have a profession and is forced to earn a living through sports. Jean Giraudoux
• If you want to put together a team to win the high jump, you're looking for one guy who can jump seven feet, not seven guys who can jump a foot each. Frederick Terman
• With assiduous mental work without movement and bodily labor - real grief. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• If God invented the marathon in order to distract us from even more stupid activities, then the triathlon must have puzzled him greatly.
• The Olympics are a circus in which the performance takes place in twenty arenas at the same time.
  
• If I ever need a brain transplant, the best donor would be a sportswriter. A guy with a brain that hasn't been used. Norm Van Brocklin
• Nobody remembers who finished second except the one who finished second. Bobby Unser
• If you don't run while you're healthy, you'll have to run when you're sick. Horace
• The need for exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who eat too much and have nothing to think about. George Santayana
• Not only brains are flowing out of the country, but also muscles, if they have brains. Mikhail Zhvanetsky
• Love gymnastics, it will give you good physical development and health, good spirits! My 90 years guarantee you this! Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov

• They pump up the muscles, pumping them away from the brain. Mikhail Zhvanetsky
• Just as clothiers clean cloth, knocking out dust from it, so gymnastics cleanses the body. Hippocrates
• You must definitely shake yourself up physically in order to be mentally healthy. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• If a person does not want to run in the morning, nothing can stop him. Yogi Berra
• No effort is in vain: Sisyphus developed muscles. Paul Valéry
• If you don't run while you're healthy, you'll have to run when you're sick. Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus)
• Oh sport, you are the world! Pierre de Coubertin

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“Nothing depletes and destroys so much human body, as physical inaction" (Aristotle).

“Thousands and thousands of times I have restored health to my patients through exercise.” (Claudius Galen).

“You must definitely shake yourself up physically in order to be mentally healthy” (Lev Tolstoy).

“With assiduous mental work without movement and bodily labor - real grief” ( Lev Tolstoy).

“Just as clothiers clean cloth, knocking it out of dust, so gymnastics cleanses the body.” (Hippocrates).

“Gymnastics, physical exercise, and walking should become firmly established in the daily life of everyone who wants to maintain efficiency, health, and a full and joyful life.” (Hippocrates).

“Great sport begins where health care ends” (Bertolt Brecht).

“No effort is in vain: Sisyphus developed muscles” (Paul Valery).

“Sport does not develop character, but reveals it” (Heywood Brown).

“Nobody remembers who finished second except the one who finished second.” (Bobby Unser).

“A professional is an athlete who has no profession and is forced to earn a living through sports.” (Jean Giraudoux).

“For your team to win the high jump, you need one guy who jumps seven feet, not seven guys who jump a foot each.” (Frederick Terman).

“A person who goes in for sports can even endure cultural life” (Oliver Hassenkamp).

“I want to use whole body gymnastics to make him more balanced” (Socrates).

“If you don’t run while you’re healthy, you’ll have to run when you’re sick.” (Quintus Horace Flaccus).

“Whoever gives up physical exercise often wastes away, because the strength of his organs weakens due to refusal to move.” (Avicenna).

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If you engage in physical exercise, there is no need to take medications taken for various diseases, if at the same time you follow all other requirements of the normal regimen.” (Avicenna).

“Gymnastics prolongs a person’s youth” (John Locke).

"IN mass development physical culture and sports I see one of best options in the battle for human health, creative activity and longevity" (Petr Kuzmich Anokhin).

“Sport creates a culture of optimism, a culture of cheerfulness”

“The physical education of a child is the basis for everything else. Without the correct use of hygiene in the development of a child, without properly organized physical education and sports, we will never get a healthy generation.” (Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky).

“Love gymnastics, it will give you good physical development and health, good spirits! My 90 years guarantee you this!” (Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov).

“After walking and swimming, I feel that I am younger, and most importantly, that I have massaged and refreshed my brain with bodily movements.” (Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky).

“Sport becomes a means of education when it favorite hobby everyone" (Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky).

“With the help of exercise and abstinence, the majority of people can do without medicine.” (Addison Joseph).

"Football match: a duel between the referee's whistle and the whistle of the stands" (Slawomir Wroblewski).

“Defeat is a temporary state; giving up the fight makes it permanent.” (Marilyn vos Savant).

“He who wants to be strong and brave becomes one. A real man cannot avoid sports. And if he loves a woman, he must be healthy, strong, generous!” (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

“I have no desire to prove anything to anyone, I prove to myself that I can become even better and even stronger with every workout!” (Dwayne Johnson).

“The most amazing feeling is when you know exactly what your opponent is going to do and you carefully lead him to make a mistake. If you play the combination correctly, you win. Pure chess" (Vladimir Klichko).

“To train selflessly for hours, every day, a person needs to give up ordinary pleasures and relaxation. He must have strong feeling self-denial, awareness of the goal, which will help him in overcoming temptations. A person whose mind is burning with the desire to learn everything on the chosen Path will devote every possible minute to training” (Masutasu Oyama).

“I like that I do something that others don’t do, so I’m a winner!” (Jay Cutler).

“Life is not only wrestling, but also other sports” (B. Krutier).

"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger" (Friedrich Nietzsche).

“If anything moves me forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength.” (Michael Jordan).

“If I lose, I'll walk away and I won't regret it... Because I know I did everything I could.” (Joe Fraser).

“No matter how many important fights a boxer has, the most important in life is the next one” (John Ruiz).

“Wrestling is my whole life. It starts with talent, turns into a hobby, becomes a profitable business and profession, but this is not enough to be completely satisfied, to achieve success in wrestling you just need to love it.” (Karam Gaber).

“If a person doesn’t want to run in the morning, nothing can stop him” (Yogi Berra).

“Will is what makes you win when your mind tells you that you are defeated.” (Carlos Castaneda).

"You're not a loser until you give up" (Michael Jordan).

“Becoming a champion is much easier than holding this title and living with it all your life.” (Roy Jones).

“Strength of spirit destroys any strength of muscles!” (Sylvester Stallone).

“The most important thing for success in bodybuilding is education. But this is not a school, not a college or a university, but a constant study of all available information on this issue." (Flex Wheeler).