Quotes

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
-Michael Jordan

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
-George Shultz

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
-Amelia Earhart

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

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.
-Anonymous Author

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
-Billie Jean King

To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
-Tony Dorsett

When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.
-Duffy Daugherty

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision.
-Muhammad Ali

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.
-Sam Huff

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
-Katarina Witt

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
-Magic Johnson

The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
-Anonymous Author

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
-Jack Handey

I'll let the racket do the talking.
-John McEnroe

The critic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-Oscar Wilde

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

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
-Herschel Walker

In play there are two pleasures for your choosing - The one is winning, and the other losing.
-Lord Byron

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

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
-Martina Navratilova

You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.
-Arthur Ashe

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
-Muhammad Ali