10 Favorite Sport Songs for Motivation on your IPod or Ringtones

Last Updated on January 24, 2009 by Jimson Lee

We all need motivation sometimes. It’s easy when practice is scheduled for 5:05 pm, and I’m waiting for you at the track.

But what happens if you are a self-trained athlete without a coach? Maybe you are a distance runner, or a heavy quarter miler who does 7 mile Sunday runs in the Fall GPP season?

Enter MP3 players, iPods <enter brand type here>, or even your favorite ringtones on your cell phone. These are better than my bulky yellow Sony Walkman 20 years ago! And yes, I still have that POS.

Here are a list of songs that somehow crept into my repertoire:

• 10 – Guns N Roses: Welcome To The Jungle (1987, used by the Cincinnati Bengals in 1998)
• 9 – 3 Doors Down: Kryptonite (2000, used in Michael Johnson “Superman” videos)
• 8 – Blur: Song 2 (a.k.a. Woo hoo) (1997)
• 7 – Smash Mouth: Walking On The Sun (1997)
• 6 – Flock of Seagulls: I Ran (a.k.a. So Far Away) (1982)
• 5 – Queen: Another One Bites The Dust (1980)
• 4 – Queen: We Will Rock You – We Are The Champions (1977)
• 3 – The Baha Men: Who Let The Dogs Out (1998)
• 2 – Gary Glitter – Rock and Roll, Part 2 (a.k.a. The Hey Song) (1972, used in many Hockey arenas)
• 1 – Survivor: Eye Of The Tiger (1982, used in the movie Rocky III)

What songs are in your collection?