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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGRWOk3oelA

Jimmy Valvano at the 1993 ESPYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuoVM9nm42E

Coach Gaines from the Friday Night Lights film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-iPiN_YHjY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4VTn2PCxn8

Little League coach David Belisle

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

Ducks fly together from D2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyVF1glhAfk

Chuck Pagano to the Indianapolis Colts after beating cancer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89BOdu5jg8

Ray Lewis to the Stanford mens basketball team

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w8BfH1Q_zM

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

Yul Brenner in Cool Runnings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zFHkBQBg-4

Paul O'Connell The Fear of God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhgt2pnSywI

Coach Taylor compilation from Friday Night Lights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pZHXQ698Ok

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0SgBOREvb8

Scott Quinnell School of Hard Knocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnEpj2h1YTc

This kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u35MwQ_zrBI

Coach Brooks in Miracle on Ice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwpTj_Z9v-c

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