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Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to
what lies within us.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become
great.
If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
"If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to
win."
"You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort
zone."
"Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to
unlocking our potential."
"Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we
take our eyes off our goals."
"What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for
problems."
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can
beat every time.
The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I'm starting to believe that.
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the
world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the
cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards
will be stacked in your favor.
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control
over what you do.
There's no substitute for guts.
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.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling
badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I
believed in myself.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the
determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves
to the task at hand.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose,
you have lost.
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and
tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring
the experience is a matter of time.
To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to
motivate you, something to inspire you.
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s
determination
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement,
about being better than you were the day before.
Ain't no chance if you don’t take it.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and
then losing becomes a habit.
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s
the mark of a true professional.
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is
absolutely necessary.
To be prepared is half the victory.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear.
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter
of life or death. It’s more important than that.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of
strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself:
Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll
win....Channel your energy. Focus.
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.
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or
you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
I'll always be Number 1 to myself.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I
have of it.
You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired
and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
If you don't do what’s best for your body, you're the one who comes up
on the short end.
If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won
your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or
just finish the race its up to you.
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.
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there.
I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love
competition.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high
expectations for myself.
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was
my mental ability.
He who stops being better stops being good. -Oliver Cromwell
Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination. If you can't accept losing, you can't win. - Vince Lombardi
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi Sports Do Not Build Character...They Reveal It - John Wooden
All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else. - Vince Lombardi
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. - Mahatma Gandhi
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 (1913-1970) US football coach
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on. - Lou Holtz, College football coach College football coach
Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater
price.
Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about
having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.
The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
You can't make a great play unless you do it first in practice.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find
another way.
Things that hurt, instruct.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is
being good every day.
Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is
practiced and then it is shared.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
"I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming
adversity."
"Victory isn't defined by wins or losses. It is defined by effort. If
you can truthfully say, 'I did the best I could, I gave everything I had,' then
you're a winner."
"A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without
it, you'll never be enough with it."
"An athlete is a normal person with the gift of an undying passion to
be the best and achieve greatness."
"It doesn't take talent to hustle."
"One bout doesn't make a champion. One win or one loss isn't
reflective of an entire career...Champions aren't made or lost with one
battle."
"The difference between a good athlete and a top athlete is the top
athlete will do the mundane things when nobody's looking."
"It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by
setbacks."
"Don't be content with average because average is just as close to
the bottom as it is to the top."
"Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how
to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real
successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get
too confident."
"The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to
lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she
loves to win."
"Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last
performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort."
"In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser.
To be a winner, we must devote time and hard work. To be a loser you do nothing,
and that's exactly what you will get, nothing."
"Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am
the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My
choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the keys to my
destiny."
"When anyone tells me I can't do anything...I'm just not listening
anymore."
"The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate
themselves."
"Play like you're in first, but train like you're in second."
"If you never lose then you can never appreciate the victories."
"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can
start now and make a brand new ending."
"On the road to life there are many paths... some twist, some turn,
some dip, some curve. As long as you keep your focus, your destination is
obtainable."
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not
smart enough to know they were impossible."
"When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out."
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we
call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
"Aim not for what you are, but for what you could be."
"Dreams take time, patience, sustained effort, a willingness to fail,
if they are ever to be anything more than dreams."
"If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the
time to do it over?"
"One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to
other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your
own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about."
"Don't let the low times keep you down. Learn from them and reach for
the high times."
"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams into reality, it
takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and
effort."
"Square your shoulders to the world, be not the kind to quit; It's
not the load that weighs you down but the way you carry it."
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes
you nothing. It was here first."
"The biggest mistake you can make is continually fearing you will
make one."
"The more effort you put into something, the more you get in
return."
"If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back
and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen."
"The higher we reach, the longer and harder we have to try."
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
"Nothing will work unless you do"---John Wooden
Katarina Witt
Steve Ballesteros
Arnold Palmer
Arthur Ashe
Sugar Ray Robinson
Isiah Thomas
John Wooden
Jerry West
Lance Armstrong
Wayne Gretzky
Michael Jordan
Paul Coffey
Muhammed Ali
Charles O. Finley
Pat Riley
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things
exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your
better is best.
It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport.
Especially for beach volleyball you don't have to be tall or as fast as other
sports. You just have to have the skills.
If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater
price.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
"The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength,
skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit."
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