Be the hardest working person you can be. That's how you separate yourself from the competition. @ -Stephen Curry
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
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
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' @ -Muhammad Ali
Winners in life don't always win; they just don't give up.
Start unknown. Finish unforgettable. @ -Nike
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't. @ -Jerry Rice
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
Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong.
To be number one, you have to train like you're number two. @ -Maurice Green
It doesn't matter if everyone believes in you, you have to believe in yourself to succeed.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
It isn't the hours you put in, but what you put in the hours.
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. @ -Mia Hamm
If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you.
Sometimes it's not how GOOD you are, but how BAD you want it.
Think training is hard? Try losing. @ -Nike
Coach me and I will learn. Challenge me and I will grow. Believe in me and I will win.
Heroes come and go, but legends are forever. @ -Kobe Bryant
When you feel like stopping, think about why you started.
Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. @ -Michael Jordan
You will never know your limits until you push yourself to them.
They told me I couldn't. That's why I did it.
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. @ -Babe Ruth
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. @ -Michael Jordan
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
Work hard. Dream big. Never give up.
I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That's what makes you a champion. @ -Muhammad Ali
Good things come to those who work their asses off and never give up.
You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down. @ -Muhammad Ali
If you can't outplay them, outwork them. @ -Ben Hogan
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. @ -Zig Ziglar
Stay positive, work hard, make it happen.
Give yourself some credit for the days you made it when you thought you couldn't.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. @ -Michael Jordan
You don't get it by wishing. @ -Nike
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. @ -Bo Jackson
Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable. You got this.
Work hard in silence, let success make the noise.
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits. @ -Michael Phelps
If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you. Make it burn. @ -Nike
Winners train, losers complain.
Take the risk or lose the chance.
The harder you work, the harder it is to lose.
Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed. @ -LeBron James
No dream is too big if you're willing to put in the work.
Play like you're in first; train like you're in second.
Do it with passion or not at all.
Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun. @ -Kobe Bryant
You are your only limit.
I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. @ -Michael Jordan
Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't. @ -Jerry West
The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Talk about winning, not about losing.
The ones who say you can't are too afraid you will. @ -Nike
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. @ -Muhammad Ali
Whenever you feel like giving up, think of all the people that would love to see you fail.
Tell me I can't, then watch me work twice as hard to prove you wrong. @ -Heather Mitts
Even though you're fed up, you gotta keep your head up. @ -Tupac
You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. @ -Jerry West
It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win. @ -Muhammad Ali
When you're not training, someone else is.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. @ -Wayne Gretzky
What is stopping you from giving it your all?
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. @ -Michael Jordan
It's not about how bad you want it. It's about how hard you're willing to work for it.
You're not going to become a beast overnight. Grind every day until you become one.
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat. @ -Herschel Walker
Believe in yourself a little more.
In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up. @ -Rich Froning Jr.
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. @ -Michael Jordan
The true champion loses many battles before winning the war.
Good things come to those who sweat.
Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed. @ -Robert Kiyosaki
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
Success is hard. If it's easy, you're not doing it right.
The sweat. The time. The devotion. It pays off.
No matter how you feel... Get up, dress up, show up and never give up.
Don't stop until you're proud.
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
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. @ -Joe Namath
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't. @ -Jack Dempsey
If you feel like giving up, look back at how far you've come.
Success starts with the mindset that you can do it. You must believe that you can, despite what adversity may come your way.
You can and you will, just believe in yourself.
No excuses. Play like a champion.
It's going to be hard. But hard is not impossible.
It's not how big you are, it's how big you play. @ -John Wooden
Success doesn't stop when you get there. @ -Michael Jordan
What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. @ -Dean Smith
Let your hustle be louder than your mouth.
Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. @ -Muhammad Ali
Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. @ -Robert Kiyosaki
Working hard is important, but there is something that matters even more: believing in yourself. @ -Harry Potter
The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.
If you get tired, learn to rest, not quit.
If no one thinks you can then you have to. @ -Nike
Stay focused, believe that you can achieve at the highest level, surround yourself with others who believe in you, and do not stray from your goal. @ -Zach Ertz
Giving up is simply not an option. @ -Nike
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. @ -Heywood Broun
Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.
When you feel like quitting. Ask yourself why you started.
Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest.
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. @ -Larry Bird
Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up. @ -Rocky Balboa
Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable. @ -Conor McGregor
Be proud of yourself for how hard you're trying.
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
Nothing is impossible when you believe in yourself.
Practice like you've never won. Perform like you've never lost.
You can only reach your goals through commitment, consistency, and hard work.
There's no elevator to success; take the stairs.
Don't limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.
When life gets harder, challenge yourself to get stronger.
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. @ -Terry Bradshaw
I've learned what it feels like to lose, believe me. But I think, in the end, that is just going to make winning that much better. @ -Kevin Durant
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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
If you want to fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. @ -Toni Morrison
The fact that you aren't where you want to be, should be enough motivation.
No matter how hard you work, someone else is working harder. @ -Elon Musk
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there. @ -Venus Williams
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. @ -Vince Lombardi
What seems hard now will one day be your warm-up.
Don't settle for easy. Grind hard and make it happen.
Failure's not an option. It's a step. @ -Nike
If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. @ -Zig Ziglar
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. @ -Ronnie Lott
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
You are stronger than you think.
Grind now, so you can play later.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. @ -Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you keep going you won't regret it. If you give up you will.
The only bad workout is the one that didn't happen.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. @ -Colin Powell
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. @ -John Smith
You will be tested, but don't quit.
It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. @ -A League of Their Own
Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe. @ -Jack Nicklaus
You are the only one who can limit your greatness.
When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it's game over for everyone else. @ -Jason Day
The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. @ -Ted Turner
Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work. @ -Usain Bolt
A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.
Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done.
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. People can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
Be all in or get all out. There is no halfway.
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. @ -Michael Jordan
No fear. No limits. No Excuses.
Dedicate yourself. @ -Nike
Right now, your competition is training.
High achievement doesn't require inborn talent. It requires working your ass off. Period. @ -David Goggins
The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you. @ -Jackie Joyner-Kersee
The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves. @ -Muhammad Ali
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. @ -Jesse Owens
Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.
The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.
At the end of the day, people who take risks win.
Beginning is easy, continuing is hard. @ -Japanese Proverb
Attitude, the difference between winners and losers.
Believing in yourself is the biggest factor in success.
Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit.
Going in one more round when you don't think you can, that's what makes all the difference in your life. @ -Rocky Balboa
If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you.
Don't let a win get to your head or a loss to your heart.
No matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult or unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. @ -Les Brown
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. @ -Paulo Coelho
If you are ready to play, you have to give everything. No excuses. @ -Patrice Evra
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. @ -Larry Bird
The difference in winning and losing is most often... Not quitting. @ -Walt Disney
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. @ -Ellen DeGeneres
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up. @ -Nelson Mandela
Winners don't wait for chances, they take them.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. @ -Jesse Jackson
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? @ -Joe Namath
Make time for it. Just get it done. Nobody ever got strong or in shape just by thinking about it. They did it.
The real workout starts when you want to stop. @ -Ronnie Coleman
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. @ -Michael Jordan
Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen. @ -Ralph Marston
And it all began with one small win.
Failure defeats losers but inspires winners.
What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner. @ -James Dyson
Unless you puke, faint, or die, keep going.
Don't decrease the goal. Increase the effort. @ -Tom Coleman
You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
I need to remain humble, stay disciplined and keep training. That's how I will continue to be a champion.
You are much stronger than you think.
If you are afraid of failure you don't deserve to be successful. @ -Charles Barkley
The best things come to those who never give up.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started. @ -Marcus Garvey
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. @ -Oprah Winfrey
Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.  @ -Chris Evert
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
Success occurs when your dreams get bigger than your excuses.
It always seems impossible until it's done. @ -Nelson Mandela
Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level. @ -Germany Kent
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. @ -Mary Kay Ash
You can let your fear stop you or motivate you to push through.
Hustle for that muscle.
You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours. @ -Herb Brooks
I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated. @ -Emmitt Smith
Win if you can, lose if you must, but never quit. @ -Cameron Trammell
Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is. @ -Arnold Palmer
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. @ -Alan Armstrong
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. @ -Jonathan Kozol
If you can dream it, you can do it. @ -Walt Disney
You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless. @ -Christopher McDougall
The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things @ -Alexa Hirschfeld
It's going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. @ -Ray Bradbury
If you think you can, you will.
If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters. @ -Michael Owen
You get one life. Make it count. @ -Shane Parrish
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you learn.
To be a champion, you must act like a champion. @ -Lou Ferrigno
When you want to give up, remember why you started.
Never stop challenging yourself. The day you do, you're falling behind.
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficult, and every difficulty has an opportunity. @ -J. Sidlow Baxter
If you're not failing, you're not pushing your limits, and if you're not pushing your limits, you're not maximizing your potential. @ -Ray Dalio
You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it. @ -Dr. Robert Anthony
If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough. @ -Mario Andretti
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. @ -Bruce Lee
Just because no one's ever done it before doesn't mean it's impossible. Go for it.
Believe that you can do it cause you can do it. @ -Bob Ross
Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain. @ -Bruce Lee
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before. @ -Bonnie Blair
The pain of today is the victory of tomorrow.
When it's tough, will you give up or will you be relentless? @ -Jeff Bezos
Being challenged in life is inevitable. Being defeated is optional.
You are so close to the victory, don't you dare give up now.
I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. @ -Kobe Bryant
If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long. @ -Hayley Williams
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
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first. @ -Jackie Robinson
You were born with greatness in you.
Winners never quit and quitters never win. @ -Vince Lombardi
You're never a loser until you quit trying. @ -Mike Ditka
Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts. @ -Kobe Bryant
To stand apart from the competition, you must first stand together as a team.
If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up.
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. @ -Babe Ruth
There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out. @ -Joel Osteen
The person who prepares to win is mostly the last man standing.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. @ -Tim Duncan
You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself. @ -RJ Mitte
You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. @ -Stephen King
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. @ -Babe Ruth
Eliminate the mindset of can't — because you can do anything. @ -Toni Horton
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life. @ -Guy Kawasaki
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. @ -Lou Holtz
All things are possible - if you never give up!
Sometimes you have to be your own hero.
It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop. @ -Confucius
Make time for people who want to see you win, not just see you when you win.
Opportunity may knock, but you must open the door.
We're not born winners. We have to make ourselves into winners by our dedication to the grind. @ -ATGW
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. @ -Babe Ruth
Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. @ -Jack Canfield
There is no limit to what you can achieve if you make the decision to commit to your goal.
You are stronger than you think you are.
It's not about perfect. It's about effort. @ -Jillian Michaels
On or off the field, practice and teamwork are the key to success. @ -Malcolm Jenkins
Giving up is the greatest failure. @ -Jack Ma
I wasn't there to compete. I was there to win. @ -Arnold Schwarzenegger
Don't forget to back yourself when the whole world is against you. Be the captain of your team.
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. @ -Lucille Ball
Be legendary. @ -Nike
It is the hard days, the times that challenge you to your very core, that determine who you are. @ -Sheryl Sandberg
If you aren't begging for rest. Then you aren't training your best.
Actions speak louder than coaches.
Winning is a by-product of positive patience.
I focus on one thing and one thing only – that's trying to win as many championships as I can. @ -Kobe Bryant
Hustle beats talent when talent doesn't hustle. @ -Ross Simmonds
The only one who can tell you 'you can't' is you. And you don't have to listen. @ -Nike
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. @ -Billie Jean King
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. @ -Bill Gates
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. @ -Denis Waitley
Work hard, have fun, make history. @ -Jeff Bezos
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. @ -Christopher Reeve
He that can have patience can have what he will. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates. @ -Magic Johnson
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
There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher. @ -Usain Bolt
If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied. @ -Dwayne Johnson
To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching. @ -Stephen Curry
Practice is the best of all instructions.
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. @ -Henry Ford
Either I win or I learn.
If you have discipline, drive, and determination… Nothing is impossible. @ -Dana Linn Bailey
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. @ -Og Mandino
The hope of winning and becoming better is what keeps the world moving.
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort. @ -Michael Jordan
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. @ -Albert Einstein
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. @ -Richard Bach
One word: 'fight.' Anyone can do it when it feels good. When you're hurting, that's when it makes a difference, so you have to keep fighting. @ -Erin Cafaro
Work hard, play hard.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Push yourself but don't beat yourself up if you can't keep up to your usual pace.
Prepare and be ready. Your time will come. @ -
The more you train, the more people there are who are weaker than you.
Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer. @ -Dan Brown
Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything. @ -Mia Hamm
Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better. @ -Tim Howard
A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player. @ -Jason Kidd
Get up every time you knock down.
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
When you don't give up, you cannot fail. @ -Adrian Peterson
Don't quit because it's hard, quit because it sucks.
Passion gives you the motivation to keep trying, even if you fail time after time. @ -David A. Hunter
If the cap fits, wear it.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. @ -Lou Holtz
If you can't beat them, join them.
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. @ -Vince Lombardi
Just think about how good it must feel to be that, or how proud I might be to have done that. Make hard work look easy. @ -Marie Stein
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. @ -Lucy Maud Montgomery
We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can. @ -Christopher McDougall
Perseverance and perspective until victory. @ -Lincoln Diaz Balart
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. @ -Napoleon Hill
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. @ -Coco Chanel
Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn. @ -Georges St Pierre
It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first. @ -Robert Kraft
The harder you try, the better you are.
People do not lack strength, they lack will. @ -Victor Hugo
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. @ -Henry Ford
You can't win unless you learn how to lose. @ -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. @ -Lyndon B. Johnson
As a professional athlete, a lot is going to be said about you—but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals. @ -LeBron James
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
The determination to win is the better part of winning. @ -Daisaku Ikeda
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. @ -Chuck Close
If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you. Either I win or I learn.
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
Typically the worlds best athletes are minimalists when it comes to their training. They work hard and fast with few exercises. They master the fundamentals and work with them for years. This is the secret that no one wants to hear. @ -Greg Glassman
A champion is someone who gets up when they can't. @ -Jack Dempsey
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. @ -Mike Singletary
Victory belongs to the most persevering. @ -Napoleon Bonaparte
The winners are those who learn to take full responsibility for their actions. The losers are those who blame others for their failures.
If you believe you can do it, then nothing will stop you from succeeding.
All great achievements require time. @ -Maya Angelou
An athlete is a normal person with the gift of an undying passion to be the best and achieve greatness. @ -Amanda Ring
I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games. @ -Tony Dungy
Your ability to succeed, to fail, to win, to lose is just a matter of attitude. @ -Scott Oteri
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. @ -Joseph Kennedy
Remember that failure is an event, not a person. @ -Zig Ziglar
But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself. @ -Meb Keflezighi
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. @ -Thomas Jefferson
It doesn't matter what your background is and where you come from, if you have dreams and goals, that's all that matters. @ -Serena Williams
You only fail when you stop trying.
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. @ -Bill Shoemaker
I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity. @ -Jenna Ushkowitz
To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, and calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast. @ -Pepe Romero
Well done is better than well said. @ -Benjamin Franklin
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent. @ -RuPaul
An excuse is nothing more than a self-imposed roadblock. @ -C.C. Chapman
No one can defeat you until you defeat yourself.  @ -Hiral
Make good habits and they will make you.
The key is not the 'will to win'... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important. @ -Bob Knight
Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. @ -Albert Gray
A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind. @ -Bill Bethel
If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0.
Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up. @ -Amby Burfoot
Winners are willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else. @ -Vince Lombardi
One run can change your day. Many runs can change your life.
You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going. @ -Morgan Wootten
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. @ -Vince Lombardi
Hold you goals close and you will prevail.
Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak, what religion you practice or if you're big or small, fast or slow. It just asks you to play, to complete, to lose with dignity, to win with humility. @ -Jim Calhoun
When you play a game of thrones you win or you die. @ -Cersei Lannister
If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you. @ -Carrie Latet
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. @ -Bruce Lee
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great. @ -Alyssa Milano
Nobody is impressed with how good your excuses are.
Reaching high keeps a player on his toes.
All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point. @ -Eric Thomas
I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they're the only ones that count. @ -Muhammad Ali
I've never lost a game. I just ran out of time. @ -Michael Jordan
The real purpose of running isn't to win a race. It's to test the limits of the human heart. @ -Bill Bowerman
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. @ -Henry Ford
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. @ -Dean Karnazes
The most valuable player is the one who makes the most players valuable. @ -Peyton Manning
Teamwork is a strategic decision. @ -Patrick Lencioni
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. @ -Phil Jackson
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take. @ -Wayne Gretzky
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. @ -Ara Paraeghian
Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain. @ -Sathya Sai Baba
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. @ -Oprah Winfrey
Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us. @ -Tom Wilson
Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners. @ -Eric Thomas
There are certain basic qualities and characteristics you've got to have. Number one: you've got to have a will to win. @ -Bob Richards
When a team of dedicated individuals makes a commitment to act as one, the sky's the limit.
When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don't give up. @ -Roy T. Bennett
If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer. @ -Zig Ziglar
Obstacles are the cost of greatness. @ -Robin Sharma
Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day. @ -Gabby Douglas
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. @ -Lou Holtz
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
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
There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team. @ -Jason Fried
Continue to push yourself, the finish line is right there.
Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next. @ -George Steinbrenner
When it burns, is when you're just getting started. That's when you get stronger.
Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second. @ -Paul Bryant
In order to win, you must expect to win. @ -Richard Bach
Strength doesn't come from winning. @ -Arnold Schwarzenegger
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean," says the persevering soul; "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal. @ -Swami Vivekananda
Being a good teammate isn't about recognition. I do it because it makes me whole and complete. @ -Dwyane Wade
Believe you can and you're halfway there. @ -Theodore Roosevelt
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. @ -Virginia Burden
A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. @ -Napoleon Hill
I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better. @ -Yogi Berra
Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself. @ -Roger Staubach
If you think small things don't matter, think of the last game you lost by one point.
I don't have regrets. In any sport, the feeling of regret is a sign of indiscipline. London has passed, basically London is over. @ -Eliud Kipchoge
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it. @ -Ted Williams
There are no limits to what I can achieve.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. @ -Margaret Thatcher
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. @ -Vince Lombardi
I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win. @ -Tom Brady
It's all about the journey, not the outcome. @ -Carl Lewis
A positive, or winning mindset can often mean the difference between success or failure in any endeavour. @ -Anthony T. Galie
Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do. @ -Bob Ross
I don't have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be. @ -Muhammad Ali
To win big you sometimes have to risk big things. @ -Bill Gates
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play. @ -Boris Becker
If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow. @ -Mike Krzyzewski
Get big quietly, so you don't tip off potential competitors. @ -Chris Dixon
When you fail to prepare, you're preparing to fail. @ -John Wooden
I often hear someone say I'm not a real runner. We are all runners, some just run faster than others. I never met a fake runner. @ -Bart Yasso
The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. @ -Les Brown
Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. @ -Patrick Süskind
Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work… too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with. @ -Claude Monet
It always gets worse before it can get better. But it will get better. Like everything else, and like our past struggles, at some point we win, but before that win, there's always that loss that spurs us on. @ -Dolores Huerta
The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first. @ -Iyanla Vanzant
The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. @ -Haruki Murakami
Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark. @ -Amit Ray
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
All that's well lasts short. @ -Croatian Proverb
The secret to teamwork is an outward mindset. @ -Steve Young
You have to think it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible. @ -Kai Greene
No team works out teamwork. @ -Dwyane Wade
Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream. @ -Emmitt Smith
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. @ -Chris Evert
The winner doesn't lose hope, he perseveres. He keeps going until he works things out. He finds other viable solutions.  @ -Irene C. Kassorla
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. @ -Ralph Marston
Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beat out natural talent. @ -Pete Docter
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. @ -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. @ -George Halas
You win some, you lose some.
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
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. @ -Stephen King
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. @ -William Makepeace Thackeray
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference. @ -Lou Holtz
Never underestimate the heart of a champion! @ -Doc Rivers
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
When nothing goes right, go left.
It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. @ -Larry Page
With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input. @ -Ogwo David Emenike
If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you will see obstacles. @ -Wayne Dyer
Creativity involves not only years of conscious preparation and training but unconscious preparation as well. @ -Oliver Sacks
Go after a dream. There's a tremendous amount to risk if playing it safe. @ -Bill Burr
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. @ -Pat Riley
Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will? @ -Jon Bon Jovi
Teamwork makes the dream work. @ -Bang Gae
If you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time.
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. @ -Zig Ziglar
I have short goals—to get better every day, to help my teammates every day—but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing. @ -LeBron James
Push yourself harder than you have ever pushed yourself before. @ -Jasmine Upwork
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
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive. @ -Walt Disney
No man is defeated unless he is discouraged. @ -Bruce Lee
Nobody learns what he can do except by trying. @ -Seneca
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. @ -Bernadette Devlin
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
Try just one more time. @ -Jasmine Upwork
There is no 'I' in team but there is in win. @ -Michael Jordan
Games are won by players who focus on the playing field – not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. @ -Warren Buffett
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. @ -Wayne Gretzky
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management. @ -Tom Landry
It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success. @ -Mark Cuban
If you still look good at the end of your workout, you didn't train hard enough.
You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize. @ -Napoleon Hill
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. @ -David Sarnoff
People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals. @ -Curtis Jackson
You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you have got to hang though together. @ -Tony Dungy
If you're bored with life, you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals. @ -Lou Holtz
It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. @ -John Bingham
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
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. @ -Ann Landers
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. @ -Wayne Gretzky
You can't win them all.
You can if you think you can. @ -George Reeves
Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind. @ -Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Never put passion in front of principle, even if you win, you'll lose. @ -Karate Kid
Basketball is like a war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. @ -Red Auerbach
If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. @ -Rosalynn Carter
Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak. @ -Fred Rogers
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
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. @ -Yogi Berra
When you compete with someone as good or better than you, you may not always win, but you never lose. @ -Michael Josephson
Victory requires payment in advance.
If your dream only includes you, it's too small. @ -Ava DuVernay
Persevere and get it done. @ -George Allen Sr
You always pass failure on the way to success. @ -Mickey Rooney
Today, you have 100% of your life left. @ -Tom Landry
It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there. @ -Mia Hamm
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. @ -Knute Rockne
When the dream is BIG enough, we find the motivation to get through the tough times.
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. @ -Billie Holiday
Dead last finish is greater than did not finish, which trumps did not start.
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation. @ -Mo Rocca
Never mistake activity for achievement. @ -John Wooden
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare. @ -Bobby Knight
Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard. @ -Serena Williams
I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me peace of mind. @ -Peyton Manning
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. @ -Vince Lombardi
Surpassing my achievements feels incredible; I want to replicate that again and again. @ -Katherine Reutter Adamek
Doing your best means never stop trying. @ -Benjamin Franklin
There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out. @ -Lolo Jones
You choose to win.
I think if you keep working hard and following your dreams, you can accomplish everything you set your mind to. @ -Sundar Pichai
Giving up is the only sure way to fail. @ -Gena Showalter
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. @ -Malcolm Gladwell
Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary. @ -Bruce Coslet
Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose. @ -Lynn Davies
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. @ -Wayne Gretzky
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. @ -Lee Iacocca
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. @ -Robert Brault
My sports made me a more focused, sharper, more determined and stronger person than I was before. It's a mental game - the stronger you are the better you are. @ -Kiran Khan
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone who is not a champion. @ -Arnold Schwarzenegger
Screw it, let's do it. @ -Richard Branson
A minute's success pays the failure of years. @ -Robert Browning
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. @ -Vince Lombardi
Victory is paid for in sweat, courage and preparation. @ -Nike
Prepare your mind for winning by imagining winning feelings.
Everything negative (pressure, challenges) is all an opportunity for me to rise. @ -Kobe Bryant
With the right attitude anything is possible.
Only losers stop at failure. Never quit! 
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. @ -Aristotle
Slow is every foot on an unknown path. @ -Irish proverb
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
I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. @ -Muhammad Ali
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up. @ -Chuck Yeager
Basically being in a team is an amalgamation of different things that have a common intention of meeting the assigned goal. @ -Derek Stanzma
How long should you try? Until. @ -Jim Rohn
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. @ -Christian D. Larson
The true greats will always overcome adversity. @ -Conor McGregor
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. @ -Aristotle
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. @ -Zig Ziglar
Better hope deferred than none. @ -Samuel Beckett
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. @ -Denis Waitley
Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end. @ -Sanjo Jendayi
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
I think it's really important to have a vision of teamwork, team play, and unselfishness. @ -Chris Mullin
Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team. @ -Patrick Lencioni
Where there's a will there's a way.
Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside. @ -Brett Favre
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. @ -Coretta Scott King
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. @ -William James
Failure is less painful when you enjoy what you do.
You just can't beat the person who won't give up. @ -Babe Ruth
Marathon is no longer an individual event, it's a team event. @ -Eliud Kipchoge
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. @ -Robert Collier
The extra energy required to make another effort is the secret of winning. @ -Denis Waitley
I refuse to allow the excuses in my mind to grow into giants that keep me from living up to my full potential. @ -Shaun King
Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology. @ -Donald Johanson
Make each day your masterpiece. @ -John Wooden
Marathon runners don't worry about the conditions, they just run anyway!
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. @ -Evander Holyfield
Hard work never killed a man. @ -Scottish proverb
If you can dream it, you can achieve it. @ -Zig Ziglar
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. @ -William Shakespeare
The price of greatness is responsibility.
I saw that to do exceptionally well you have to push your limits and that, if you push your limits, you will crash and it will hurt a lot. You will think you have failed-but that won't be true unless you give up. @ -Ray Dalio
Winning and championships are memorable but they come from the strength of the relationships. @ -Jim Calhoun
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. @ -George Meredith
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. @ -Confucius
For everything there is a season.
You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you got to suit up for them all. @ -J. Askenberg
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. @ -William Arthur Ward
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
When you say 'It's hard', it actually means 'I'm not strong enough to fight for it. Stop saying it's hard. Think positive!!
If you believe you can do it then you can.
People ask if a more mindful, more self-forgiving mindset comes at cost to your drive to win. No, I think it's makes that drive to win sustainable. @ -Justin Kan
No one knows what he can do till he tries. @ -Publilius Syrus
Unity is strength... When there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. @ -Mattie Stepanek
You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. @ -Arnold Schwarzenegger
I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realize that winning is the biggest motivation. @ -Andy Murray
Whether you think you can or can't, you're right. @ -Henry Ford
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. @ -Oprah Winfrey
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. @ -English Proverb
It is always possible to practice releasing the tension in yourself. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
Don't dream of winning, train for it! @ -Mo Farah
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Every battle you face can be won every time, and the more you practice winning, the more you win. @ -Patricia King
You cannot train alone and expect to run a fast time. There is a formula: 100% of me is nothing compared to 1% of the whole team. And that's teamwork. That's what I value. @ -Eliud Kipchoge
It's true: teamwork makes the dream work. @ -Natalya Neidhart
It takes two flints to make a fire. @ -Louisa May Alcott
The best motivation always comes from within. @ -Michael Johnson
It is very hard to win when your thoughts turn to losing.
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
The harder I train every day on the track and in the gym, the more trust I gain in myself. @ -Miguel Cotto
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
Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter. @ -Dan Reeves
He is able who thinks he is able. @ -Buddha
Hustle for the muscle.
Hard luck is composed of laziness, bad judgment, and poor execution.
Believe in your dreams, only by trying you can achieve. @ -Timo Avdo
We shall win only by working together. @ -Gnassingbe Eyadema
It was never about winning medals or being famous. @ -Nancy Kerrigan
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. @ -Jimmy Johnson
It's too easy to walk away quitter never wins so you should better stay look challenges straight in the eye. @ -Z. Vujcic
The greatest triumphs often start with what feels like an impossible setback.
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
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. @ -Stephen Covey
The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence. @ -Seneca
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. @ -Josh Billings
If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world. @ -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. @ -Michelle Obama
A miss is as good as a mile.
Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature. @ -Bobby Knight
Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far. @ -Gary Vaynerchuk
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on the field and be prepared to play a good game. @ -Tom Landry
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before. @ -Polybius
The reality is, sometimes you lose. @ -Beyoncé
Hope comes from dreams. Dreams come from ambition. Ambition comes from the unwillingness to accept the facts. @ -Maxime Lagacé
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. @ -Phil Jackson
We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. @ -Malala Yousafzai
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. @ -Lou Brock
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. @ -Babe Ruth
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. @ -Grantland Rice
Work hard. Dream big. @ -Nike
The obstacle is the way. @ -Ryan Holiday
If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then willpower is no longer a problem. @ -Emil Zatopek
Great companies have something in common: they don't try to matter by winning. They win by mattering. @ -Bernadette Jiwa
No individual can win a game by himself. @ -Pele
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. @ -Sandy Koufax
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
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing it. @ -Jesse Owens
The successful man is the average man, focused.
In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.
If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better. @ -Anna Wintour
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison. @ -James Cash Penney
I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. @ -Jean-Francois Cope
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
In the battle of egos, both competitors lose. @ -Robin Sharma
I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation. @ -Bob Knight
A leader must inspire or his team will expire. @ -Orrin Woodward
How to run an ultramarathon? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line. @ -Dean Karnazes
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. @ -Rumi
When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back. @ -Michael Schumacher
To demand more of yourself than you do of others is the first step on any ladder of success.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. @ -Vince Lombardi
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. @ -Kenyan Proverb
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. @ -Dan Gable
The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team. @ -Phil Jackson
To every thing there is a season.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. @ -Zig Ziglar
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time. @ -Don Zimmer
If you're poor, change and you'll succeed. @ -Chinese Proverb
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. @ -HE Luccock
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. @ -Ethiopian Proverb
When you lose, do not lose the lesson. @ -14th Dalai Lama
You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running. @ -Christopher McDougall
In any race, when the first half is all about pacing, the second half will be about passing. @ -Hayden Shearman
People achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. @ -Dr. Allan Fromme
Every professional was once an amateur. @ -Nike
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win. @ -Carl Lewis
A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible battles inside all of us - that's where it's at. @ -Jesse Owens
Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement. @ -Matt Biondi
To succeed... You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. @ -Tony Dorsett
It is far better to shoot an airball than to not shoot at all for fear of missing. @ -Tony Alfonso
Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots. @ -David Blatt
As is our confidence, so is our capacity. @ -William Hazlitt
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. @ -Vince Lombardi
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body. @ -Arnold Schwarzenegger
Basketball is like photography, if you don't focus, all you have is the negative.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. @ -John Madden
People want to know they matter and they want to be treated as people. That's the new talent contract. @ -Pamela Stroko
It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. @ -Ellen DeGeneres
Don't mistake activity with achievement. @ -John Wooden
Football doesn't build character, it reveals character. @ -Marv Levy
The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. @ -Bob Marley
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. @ -Jean Baptiste Poqeulin
Where the determination is, the way can be found. @ -George S. Clason
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. @ -Ted Turner
A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His "becoming" happens during his daily routine. @ -Joe Louis
To win without risk is to triumph without glory. @ -Pierre Corneille
Passion and hustle.
If we have a goal and a plan, and are willing to take risks and mistakes and work as a team, we can choose to do the hard thing. @ -Scott Kelly
Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you. @ -Eddie Robinson
If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won. @ -Mia Hamm
Being the same is so last season.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. @ -Napoleon Hill
Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him. @ -Bill Russell
Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals. @ -Dr Jack Ramsay
Only by trying you can achieve.
I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. @ -Lou Holtz
Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead. @ -Roger Bannister
To be satisfied with yourself is a sure sign that your forward motion has stopped.
Just like exercising your body, your brain has to be challenged a bit more each time.
Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.
Experience is a hard teacher because it gives the test first, and the lesson afterward. @ -Vernon Law
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. @ -Brian Tracy
Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture creating the building blocks for success. @ -Ted Sundquist
Basketball is not an equal opportunity game. If you can't shoot it well, you don't get to shoot. @ -Bob Donewald
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
We all have dreams and, if you're out there and you have a dream and you want something - you want something so bad - you've got to risk everything. @ -Abby Wambach
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run. @ -Rudyard Kipling
Basketball is basketball. @ -Oscar Robertson
You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation. @ -Homer Rice
It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays. @ -Rick Pitino
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
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it. @ -Wayne Gretzky
Stand together as a team. With integrity, vision, and determination together you will succeed where others cannot.
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. @ -James Naismith
When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else. @ -John Landis Mason
You don't compete to compare. You compete to complete.
Sports creates a bond between contemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide. @ -Bob Cousy
Teams share the burden and divide the grief. @ -Doug Smith
A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever. @ -Mary Lou Retton
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. @ -Helen Keller
The greatest game you can win is won within.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. @ -David Ogilvy
Practice makes perfect.
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others. @ -Norman Shidle
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them not to let that be their only dream. @ -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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
When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less. @ -Paul Brown
To finish first, you must first finish. @ -Rick Ravon Mears
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. @ -Muhammad Ali
Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should take the same amount of shots. @ -Dean Smith
If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job. @ -Steve Nash
There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option @ -Dean Smith
Bad attitudes will ruin your team. @ -Terry Bradshaw
Number one is just to gain a passion for running. To love the morning, to love the trail, to love the pace on the track. And if some kid gets really good at it, that's cool too. @ -Pat Tyson
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. @ -Satchel Paige
If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. @ -M. H. Alderson
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back. @ -Steve Garvey
I've never aspired to be a leader. I have only focused on doing things that I felt were important. @ -Ginny Gilder
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. @ -Bill Bowerman
It's easier to do nothing and tell yourself that it will never work out than to attempt something and find out.
When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams. @ -John Edgar Wideman
Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be. @ -Mia Hamm
I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations. @ -John McEnroe
The more I practice, the luckier I get. @ -Gary Player
Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.
It ain't over till it's over. @ -Yogi Berra
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. @ -Ross Perot
The ratio of WE's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team. @ -Lewis B Ergen
To be the man, you have to beat the man. @ -Ric Flair
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. @ -Bill Vaughan
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude. @ -Michael Jordan
There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does. @ -Dean Smith
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. @ -Liane Cardes
No one ever won a game by resigning. @ -Ksawery Tartakower
Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration. @ -Dick Bennett
The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win. @ -Doug Collins
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
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. @ -John Wooden
Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. @ -Frank L. Gaines
Don't give up. Don't ever give up. @ -Jim Valvano
Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost. @ -Martina Navratilova
None of us is as smart as all of us. @ -Ken Blanchard
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. @ -Margaret Carty
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave-win or lose. @ -Gordie Howe
Good is not good when better is expected. @ -Vin Scully
Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one. @ -Phil Jackson
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes. @ -Al McGuire
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. @ -Tom Landry
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. @ -Pat Riley
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. @ -Bruce Jenner
Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat. @ -Dean Smith
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. @ -John Wooden
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... These are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. @ -Confucius
On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job. @ -Lou Holtz
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. @ -Denis Waitley
We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. @ -Benjamin Franklin
What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life. @ -Muhammad Ali
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. @ -Gale Sayers
When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself. @ -Tibetan Proverb
When you're good, you tell them. When you're great, they tell you. And you can't be great until you're better than good.
If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then willpower is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's beside the point. It's simply that I just have to. @ -Emil Zatopek
For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters. @ -Dick Bennett
All things are difficult before they are easy. @ -Thomas Fuller
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win. @ -Joe Frazier
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up. You're right on track. @ -Matthew Keith Groves
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it. @ -Knute Rockne
It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. @ -Paul 'Bear' Bryant
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. @ -Babe Ruth
Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best. @ -Jeff Van Gundy
If you give shooters the right to shoot, you must give them the right to miss. @ -Kevin Eastman
Basketball is a full-court game, so every drill must be done full court.
If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail. @ -Mark Spitz
Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound. @ -Phil Jackson
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding. @ -Jim Valvano
Make your competitive juices overcome your excuses.
A winner never stops trying. @ -Tom Landry
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
You've got to get a toughness and a level of basketball IQ that matchup because that's what the best teams have. @ -Tom Crean
Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others and then putting it into practice. @ -Sue Gunter
The true champion believes in the impossible.
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. @ -Henry Ford
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. @ -Tommy Lasorda
In basketball — as in life — true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. @ -Phil Jackson
"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything - "I will try" has performed miracles.
Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered. @ -Bill Russell
I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there. @ -Novak Djokovic
You won't know what you are capable of if you don't try.
The fear of failing will gradually become smaller than your desire to succeed with repeated attempts.
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.
The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. @ -Ken Doherty
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like muscles of the body. @ -Lynn Jennings
You don't play against opponents. You play against the game of basketball. @ -Bob Knight
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. @ -Michael Phelps
The will to win is not nearly so important as the will to prepare to win.
We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly. @ -Bill Bradley
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There is no such thing as life in-between. @ -Pat Riley
The best activities for your health are pumping and humping. @ -Arnold Schwarzenegger
Just do it. @ -Nike
To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them. @ -Picabo Street
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. @ -Scotty Bowman
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. @ -Arnold Palmer
Champions keep playing until they get it right. @ -Billie Jean King
Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself. @ -Muhammad Ali
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. @ -Pele
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. @ -Rogers Hornsby
A bad day coaching basketball is better than a good day doing almost anything else. @ -Bob Hurley
The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently. @ -Pete Carill
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. @ -Vince Lombardi
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. @ -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. @ -Lou Holtz
Great opportunities come to those who make the most of small ones.
I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too. @ -Shaquille O'Neal
Listen to champions and learn from their ups and downs.
Win or lose, it is better than wondering.
I always felt that no matter what I was doing, what I was going through, good day, bad day, on the basketball court that was my place. @ -Sheryl Swoopes
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. @ -Wilt Chamberlain
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. @ -Muhammad Ali
It's not bragging if you can back it up. @ -Muhammad Ali
Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint. @ -Angela Duckworth
This is basketball, not figure skating. You don't get extra points for degree of difficulty. @ -Bob Hurley
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. @ -Michael Jordan
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right. @ -Henry Ford
Improvise, adapt, overcome. @ -Green Beret
Only those who risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go.
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
When life kicks you, let it kick you forward. @ -Kay Yow
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. @ -Steve Young
Winning is not everything but making the effort to win is. @ -Vince Lombardi
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. @ -Emil Zatopek
The knowledge that everything good can be taken away at any second is what makes me work so hard. @ -Ronda Rousey
Heart is the difference between those who attempt and those who achieve.
