It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice. @ -Kobe Bryant
You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down. @ -Muhammad Ali
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. @ -Joe Namath
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. @ -Lou Holtz
When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it's game over for everyone else. @ -Jason Day
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition. @ -John Smith
If you play your heart out for what your jersey says on the front, everyone will remember what the jersey says on the back. @ -Miracle
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. @ -Rosalynn Carter
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. @ -Michael Jordan
Coach me and I will learn. Challenge me and I will grow. Believe in me and I will win.
If you can't outplay them, outwork them. @ -Ben Hogan
Set goals. Push yourself. Move. Don't quit. No excuses. Be awesome. @ -You got this!
Teamwork can build friendships that last a lifetime. @ -Natalya Neidhart
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? @ -Joe Namath
Winning is not everything but making the effort to win is. @ -Vince Lombardi
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
I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. @ -Michael Jordan
If you are ready to play, you have to give everything. No excuses. @ -Patrice Evra
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. @ -Ronnie Lott
Our destiny is not written for us, it's written by us @ -Barack Obama
Continue to push yourself, the finish line is right there.
I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me peace of mind. @ -Peyton Manning
It ain't over till it's over. @ -Yogi Berra
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
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. @ -Muhammad Ali
Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. @ -Muhammad Ali
When you compete with someone as good or better than you, you may not always win, but you never lose. @ -Michael Josephson
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits. @ -Michael Phelps
The ratio of WE's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team. @ -Lewis B Ergen
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. @ -Tim Ferriss
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't. @ -Jack Dempsey
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. @ -Mike Singletary
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
Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable. You got this.
If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have. @ -Hale Irwin
The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters. @ -Chrissie Wellington
Talent makes you good. Hustle makes you great.
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. @ -Henry Ford
We rise by lifting others. @ -Robert Ingersoll
Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point. @ -Pat Summitt
Winners in life don't always win; they just don't give up.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. @ -Tim Duncan
Success starts with the mindset that you can do it. You must believe that you can, despite what adversity may come your way.
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates. @ -Magic Johnson
When you don't give up, you cannot fail. @ -Adrian Peterson
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. @ -Amy Poehler
Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed. @ -LeBron James
It is very hard to win when your thoughts turn to losing.
On or off the field, practice and teamwork are the key to success. @ -Malcolm Jenkins
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. @ -Muhammad Ali
I can't play being mad. I go out there and have fun. It's a game, and that's how I am going to treat it. @ -Ken Griffey Jr.
Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result. @ -Joe Torre
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. @ -Babe Ruth
There is someone, somewhere waiting for you to motivate them to be great. So go and be great; inspire!
The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first. @ -Iyanla Vanzant
Don't stress. Do your best. Forget the rest.
Never confuse movement with action. @ -Ernest Hemingway
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. @ -Lance Armstrong
It doesn't matter if everyone believes in you, you have to believe in yourself to succeed.
In life, there is no such thing as impossible; it's always possible. @ -Venus Williams
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. @ -Andrew Carnegie
Champions keep playing until they get it right. @ -Billie Jean King
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. @ -Ryunosuke Satoro
A leader must inspire or his team will expire. @ -Orrin Woodward
With confidence, you have won even before you have started. @ -Marcus Garvey
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win. @ -Carl Lewis
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. @ -Bo Jackson
I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations. @ -John McEnroe
Going in one more round when you don't think you can, that's what makes all the difference in your life. @ -Rocky Balboa
Sometimes it's not how GOOD you are, but how BAD you want it.
Sportsmanship for me is when a guy walks off the court and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way. @ -Jim Courier
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things. @ -Biz Stone
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. @ -Vince Lombardi
Win or lose, it is better than wondering.
I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated. @ -Emmitt Smith
Champions don't do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they've learned. @ -Charles Duhigg
Be legendary. @ -Nike
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. @ -Helen Keller
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before. @ -Bonnie Blair
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. @ -John Wooden
Start unknown. Finish unforgettable. @ -Nike
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. @ -Terry Bradshaw
I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team. @ -Gregg Sulkin
This is your reminder that you got this.
A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. @ -Rosalynn Carter
Football is one of the most popular sports in the country, and there are many reasons for this. You can take so much from football and apply it to life in general. Just some of those things are goal-setting, preparation, teamwork, perseverance and discipline. @ -Philip Rivers
Nobody learns what he can do except by trying. @ -Seneca
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. @ -Bernadette Devlin
Sometimes in life you have got to be your own coach, your own cheerleader, and your own fan. @ -Jasmine Upwork
When you want to throw the towel in, there is someone you may not even realize that is rooting for you in the stands. @ -Jasmine Upwork
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. @ -Chris Evert
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. @ -Steve Young
We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things. @ -Steve Alford
Passion first and everything will fall into place. @ -Holly Holm
There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do. @ -Derek Jeter
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity @ -Sun Tzu
No one ever won a game by resigning. @ -Ksawery Tartakower
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. @ -Michael Jordan
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. @ -Michael Jordan
Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream. @ -Emmitt Smith
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. @ -George Halas
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. @ -Henry Ford
No individual can win a game by himself. @ -Pele
I've learned two things. Never, ever believe in 'can't.' And be good to people and people will be good to you. @ -Dick Vitale
I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence. @ -Bo Ryan
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others. @ -Norman Shidle
It ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. @ -Rocky Balboa
The goal is not to be better than the other man, but to be better than your previous self. @ -Hindu Proverb
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. @ -Lou Brock
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. @ -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. @ -Abraham Lincoln
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team. @ -Bud Wilkinson
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. @ -Scotty Bowman
Unity is strength... When there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. @ -Mattie Stepanek
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. @ -Phil Jackson
Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next. @ -George Steinbrenner
As a former NCAA basketball player, many of the skills I now rely on as a leader took root on the basketball court: teamwork, integrity, and resilience are just some of the traits I've carried over into my professional game. @ -Cathy Engelbert
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. @ -Bill Bowerman
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. @ -Wayne Gretzky
We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together. @ -Victoria Osteen
It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win. @ -Muhammad Ali
Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world. @ -Muhammad Ali
When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner-and how that winner might be me. @ -Maria Sharapova
You're never a loser until you quit trying. @ -Mike Ditka
If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won. @ -Mia Hamm
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison. @ -James Cash Penney
Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results. @ -Ifeanyi Onuoha
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. @ -Michael Jordan
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. @ -Dean Karnazes
I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. @ -Jean-Francois Cope
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time. @ -Don Zimmer
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. @ -Arthur Ashe
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. @ -Arnold Palmer
I've always played sport, ever since I was little. I played volleyball and I believe sport teaches you a lot, such as teamwork, respect and discipline. @ -Gisele Bundchen
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. @ -Babe Ruth
The only one who can tell you 'you can't' is you. And you don't have to listen. @ -Nike
Don't give up. Don't ever give up. @ -Jim Valvano
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. @ -Elbert Hubbard
Win if you can, lose if you must, but never quit. @ -Cameron Trammell
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. @ -Billie Jean King
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it. @ -Knute Rockne
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. @ -Virginia Burden
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team. @ -Reid Hoffman
There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one. @ -Mia Hamm
When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed. @ -Russel Honore
A winner never stops trying. @ -Tom Landry
It's true: teamwork makes the dream work. @ -Natalya Neidhart
None of us is as smart as all of us. @ -Ken Blanchard
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. @ -HE Luccock
In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. It takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose? @ -Jesse Owens
Victory is paid for in sweat, courage and preparation. @ -Nike
What separates the good players from a great player is that a great player is willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. @ -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. @ -Les Brown
No excuses. Play like a champion.
It takes two flints to make a fire. @ -Louisa May Alcott
In sport, you only see the fighter, but it's teamwork. Without a good team, you will never be the best. In boxing, you have to work with the best coach, the best lawyer, the best manager, the best doctor. Exactly the same principle applies in politics. @ -Vitali Klitschko
Be the hardest working person you can be. That's how you separate yourself from the competition. @ -Stephen Curry
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do. @ -John Adams
You will never know your limits until you push yourself to them.
The harder you work, the harder it is to lose.
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others. @ -George Shinn
When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back. @ -Michael Schumacher
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. @ -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Don't let a win get to your head or a loss to your heart.
You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours. @ -Herb Brooks
I'm a true believer in the strength of teamwork, in the power of dreams, and in the absolute necessity of a support structure. @ -Julie Payette
I think it's really important to have a vision of teamwork, team play, and unselfishness. @ -Chris Mullin
You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend. @ -Sue Wicks
I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football - teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic, resiliency, dedication - I got it all by being on a team. @ -Jon Gruden
Sport has taught me never to be jealous of someone or insecure if somebody is doing well. It's taught me teamwork and the value of patience. Even If I lose, I know that I've actually not lost. @ -Ritika Singh
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. @ -Wayne Gretzky
It's better to be alone than in bad company. @ -George Washington
Right now, you hear about teamwork, and it's defined as 50-50, and that is a falsehood. There's no such thing as 50-50. You know, you do whatever you have to do as part of the team. @ -Chuck Noll
Teamwork is a strategic decision. @ -Patrick Lencioni
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues. @ -Franklin D. Roosevelt
A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken! @ -Bonnie Edelstein
Actions speak louder than coaches.
Grind now, so you can play later.
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. @ -Margaret Carty
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. @ -Isaac Newton
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. @ -Vince Lombardi
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. @ -Babe Ruth
Listen to champions and learn from their ups and downs.
Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts. @ -Kobe Bryant
Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is. @ -Arnold Palmer
The element of teamwork is perhaps underappreciated. @ -Stewart Butterfield
Make your competitive juices overcome your excuses.
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation. @ -Mo Rocca
No team works out teamwork. @ -Dwyane Wade
You are your only limit.
Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself. @ -Muhammad Ali
Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests. @ -Patrick Lencioni
Beliefs drive behaviors and self-limiting beliefs lead to self-defeating behaviors.  Believe in yourself and your abilities. @ -Gary Mack
Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well. @ -Mike Schmoker
Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss. @ -Doug Williams
The most valuable player is the one who makes the most players valuable. @ -Peyton Manning
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. @ -Harry S. Truman
