I’m a huge fan of quotes. The right ones can contain vast amounts of knowledge and wisdom in just a few sentences and I find that fascinating. I’m always on the lookout for inspirationals ones I can relate to, and I write out a few of my own to motivate athletes.

Obviously, not all quotes can relate to all things and as far as I know, there has never been a list of quotes carefully curated to help inspire and boost the motivation of cheerleaders…

Until now!

After hours of collecting and sorting through the best ones I could find, I’ve come up with this special list just for you. So bookmark this page, share it with your friends and drop by often whenever you need a shot of motivation before training. A good quote can help turn a bad tumbling day, into a great tumbling day because if you’ve been reading my stuff for a while, you know how important a good mentality and attitude is to your success.

Enjoy!

Some Of My Personal Favorites

“Ordinary actions repeated over a period of time, produce extra-ordinary results”
– Unknown (Tweet This)

“Unless you pay the price for success, you will not know its worth”
– Apoorve Dubey (Tweet This)

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
– Henry Ford (Tweet This)

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
– Henry David Thoreau (Tweet This)

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going”
– Beverly Sills (Tweet This)

“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is”
– Vince Lombardi (Tweet This)

“Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities”
– Dancia Patrick (Tweet This)

“Experience is the hardest, yet most valuable teacher – it gives you the test first, and the lesson later”
– Unknown (Tweet This)

“The only way to create a diamond is under pressure. And the only way to make it shine is to cut and polish it over and over again”
– Unknown (Tweet This)

“Do you know why we fall, sir? So that we may learn to pick ourselves back up!”
– Alfred from Batman Begins (Tweet This)

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar (Tweet This)

“You can’t fire a cannon, from a canoe!”
– Charles Poliquin (Tweet This)

[He was trying to make a point as to why you need a to have a solid foundation as an athlete through proper conditioning, before you try difficult skills]

“Pain is temporary; it may last for a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year. But eventually it will subside, but something else will take it’s place. If you quit however, it will last forever.”
– Eric Thomas (Tweet This)

“Tears may get you sympathy, but sweat will get you results”
– Unknown (Tweet This)

“You can’t push yourself forward by patting your own ass”
– The FitJerk (Tweet This)

“Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions, the hero and the sidekick.”
– Laurence Shames (Tweet This)

“If people are talking behind your back, it’s only because you’re ahead of them”
– Unknown (Tweet This)

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
– Steve Jobs (Tweet This)

“If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions.”
– Chinese Proverb (Tweet This)

“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile”
– Roger Staubach (Tweet This)

“The big shots are just little shots that kept on shooting”
– Christopher Morley (Tweet This)

“Fear is the interest you pay on a debt you may not even owe”
– Unknown (Tweet This)

“Don’t be angry at the results you don’t have with the work you didn’t do”
– Unknown (Tweet This)

“The best time to plant a tree you want, was 20 years ago. The second best time is right now”
– Chinese Proverb (Tweet This)

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right”
– Henry Ford (Tweet This)

“Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
– Joshua J. Marine (Tweet This)

“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who’s doing it”
– Chinese Proverb (Tweet This)

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me”
– Ayn Rand (Tweet This)

“A trophy carries dust, but a memory lasts forever”
– Mary Lou Retton (Tweet This)

“I am not afraid of the 10,000 strikes you’ve practiced once. But I’m deathly afraid of the one strike you’ve practiced 10,000 times”
– Chinese Monk Proverb (Tweet This)

“Good is not good enough when better is expected of you”
– Vin Scully (Tweet This)

“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”
– Pele (Tweet This)

“Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.”
– Lou Brock (Tweet This)

“If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
– Michale Jordan (Tweet This)

“Don’t let what you CAN do stop you from doing what you can’t do”
– Unknown (Tweet This)

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
– Muhammad Ali (Tweet This)

“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”
– Dan Gable (Tweet This)

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
– John Wooden (Tweet This)

“If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.”
– Michael Owen (Tweet This)

[Update, July 2014: Below are a few bonus ones I’ve found that were worth including]

“Nothing changes, if nothing changes”
–Earnie Larson (Tweet This)

“If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.”
– Unknown (Tweet This)

“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”
– Rikki Rogers (Tweet This)

I hope you enjoyed these, and if you have any of your own personal favorites that you’d like to share, post them in the comment section below – I’d love to read them. Also, on the next page are some quotes of my own …Continue

Some Of My Own Quotes

“When you train to be the best on the worst possible day, you’ll perform you best in any possible situation”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“There are two ways you can become the best: you can put everyone else down, or you can build yourself up to your highest potential”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“Conditioning can change bodies, technique can be taught, but what I can’t do is teach you how to have the passion.”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“Show me a tumbler that is 100% fearless and I’ll show you someone who’s going to bust in the very near future.”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“Give me someone who can barely do a cartwheel but has the right attitude, and I’ll give you a level 5 tumbler within 2 years flat.”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“Most injuries in tumbling are a result of crappy landings. Yet it’s the aspect most people ignore to train.”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“You build a house by laying down one brick at a time. So why in the world would you “huck” an new skill without progressions?”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“When you aren’t coachable, you’ve instantly blocked yourself off from progress.”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“Getting good at tumbling isn’t about fear elimination, it’s about fear management. Because it never goes away.”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“You need to treat your handstand with the same amount of respect you give to a double twist.”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“There comes a point where you need to stop analyzing things and go fall on your ass a few times. Just so you can pick yourself back up and realize that failure is no big deal”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“It is only when you fall in love with repetition that you’ll start to enjoy results.”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“The day your coach stops giving you shit and pushing you to your limits is the day you know they stopped caring”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“I’ve only ever heard the phrase ‘i don’t care about winning’ by those that lost, and the phrase ‘money is the root of all evil’ by those that are broke. Interesting that.”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“You need to fix your attitude before you fix your technique”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“It doesn’t matter if you can barely do a cartwheel to save your life, if you WANT to be a tumbler, it is never too late.”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“Being called talented was never a compliment to me – it was an insult. Because it discredited the hard work and sacrifice I put in by assuming I came out of the womb doing double fulls”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)

“The best way to stay mediocre is to assume that you were never meant to be great to begin with”

– Sahil M (Tweet This)