17 Inspirational Sports Speeches That Will Have You Running Through Walls

Some of these are from real life situations, some of them are fictional but they will all inspire you before you go out and rip it up on the five-a-side pitch.

It goes from Matthew McConaughey talking to the Texas Longhorns college football team all the way back to Kurt Russell in Miracle on Ice with visits to Jim Telfer on the 1997 Lions Tour and Páidí Ó Sé in between.

Matthew McConaughey to the Texas Longhorns

Jimmy Valvano at the 1993 ESPYs

Coach Gaines from the Friday Night Lights film

A mashup of Páidí Ó Sé's speech from Marooned and Al Pacino's from Any Given Sunday

Little League coach David Belisle

Ducks fly together from D2

Chuck Pagano to the Indianapolis Colts after beating cancer

Ray Lewis to the Stanford mens basketball team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07fhOVQ9wEA

Rudy - "No one comes into our house and pushes us around"

Jim Telfer on the 1997 Lions tour - "This is your Everest boys"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc3S6iGmUjI

Yul Brenner in Cool Runnings

Paul O'Connell The Fear of God

Coach Taylor compilation from Friday Night Lights

"You make sure they remember forever the night they played the Titans"

Scott Quinnell School of Hard Knocks

This kid

Coach Brooks in Miracle on Ice

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