You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. —Michael Jordan Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. —John Wooden If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat. —Herschel Walker Most games are lost, not won. —Casey Stengel The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost. —George Shultz Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records. —William A. Ward Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. —Charlie Finley You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do. —A J Kitt It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. —Archie Griffen, two-time Heisman winner ( 5’9’’) There’s no substitute for guts. —Paul “Bear” Bryant I really lack the words to compliment myself today. —Alberto Tomba How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. —Lou Holtz My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging —Hank Aaron Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. —Joe Paterno The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. —Joe Paterno We must either find a way or make one. —Hannibal It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. —Muhammad Ali Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. —Honore de Balzac Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. —Greg LeMond To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. —Tony Dorsett Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates. —Magic Johnson Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. —Bo Jackson Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. —Sir Edmund Hillary I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. —Gale Sayers The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination —Tommy Lasorda Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. —Coach Darrel Royal You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge. —Damon Runyon It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you're tired—you quit when the gorilla is tired. —Robert Strauss If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. —Ronnie Lott The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it—as long as you really believe 100 percent. —Arnold Schwarzenegger Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. —Tom Landry Winners never quit and quitters never win. —Unknown It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice. —Eric Lindros The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. —Vidal Sassoon The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. —Jean-Claude Killy Everyone has limits on the time they can devote to exercise, and cross- training simply gives you the best return on your investment—balanced fitness with minimum injury risk and maximum fun. —Paula Newby-Fraser Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. —Mark Twain Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. —Amelia Earhart Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time. —Lou Brock Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you. —Satchel Paige If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average. —M.H. Alderson When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, “I’m gonna prove you wrong.” —Picabo Street The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I’m starting to believe that. —Dan O’Brien The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. —Vince Lombardi There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There’s no such thing as life in-between. —Pat Riley The game isn’t over till it’s over. — Yogi Berra Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. —Bob Richards, Pole Vaulter It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. —John Wooden I’ll always be Number 1 to myself. —Moses Malone I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. —Thomas Jefferson When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important. —Bill Shoemaker It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. —Seneca The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. —Babe ruth The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top. —O.J. Simpson The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. —Don Coryell, ex-San Diego Chargers Coach When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winner’s circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor. —Pat Riley Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it. —Chuck Noll, ex-Pittsburgh Steelers Coach When your are playing for the national championship, it’s not a matter of life or death. It’s more important than that. —Duffy Daugherty The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. —Vincent T. Lombardi Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. —Robert F. Kennedy My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: “Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win....Channel your energy. Focus.” —Carl Lewis The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. —Dennis Waitley Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. —Thomas Edison A ship in the harbor is safe. But that’s not what ships are built for. —Anonymous The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves. —Anonymous Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big. —Anonymous Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: The would is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. —Anonymous You learn you can do your best even when it’s hard, even when you’re tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage. —Joe Namath Winning isn’t everything, wanting to is. —Anonymous If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end. —Julius Erving Confidence is a very fragile thing. —Joe Montana If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race—it’s up to you. —Dave Scott, Triathlete I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win. —Arnold Palmer Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods. —JFK The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them. —Robert Frost The more I train, the more I realize I have more speed in me. —Leroy Burrell Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! —Pat Riley If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. —Author unknown Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. —Will Rogers Winners never quit and quitters never win. —Unknown I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition. —Jean-Claude Killy Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. —Samuel Johnson Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself. —Shannon Miller I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. —Bruce Jenner In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing. —Van Morrison He who stops being better stops being good. —Oliver Cromwell The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. —Steve Young When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. —Kikuyu proverb I know that I’m never as good or bad as any single performance. I’ve never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena. —Charles Barkley A winner never whines. —Paul Brown What’s the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. —Terry Bradshaw Ain’t no chance if you don’t take it. —Guy Clark In war there is no substitute for victory. —Douglas MacArthur You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do. —Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead The first and great commandment is, Don’t let them scare you. —Elmer Davis I think I’ve always had the shots. But in the past, I’ve suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I’m starting to get away from that and my mental discipline and commitment to the game are much better. I think I’m really taking a good look at the big picture. That’s the difference between being around for the final or watching the final from my sofa at home. —Andre Agassi When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator! —Pat Riley You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit. —Joe Paterno You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional. —Joe Paterno Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. —Ray Knight To be prepared is half the victory. —Miguel Cervantes
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