“Winning isn’t everything, wanting to is.”

“It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves.”
(Sir Edmund Hillary – the 1st man to climb Mount Everest)

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” (Charles F. Kettering)

“You are never a loser until you quit trying.” (Mike Dikta, one of only two people to win American Football NFL Super Bowls as a player, an assistant coach and a head coach)

“Football is my passion. If I want to take my mind off things, all you have to do is give me a ball, For me, this is pure happiness.” (Franck Ribery – World Class midfielder for Bayern Munchen and France)

“The difference between a successful person & others is not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will.”

“The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.”

“The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.”
(Anson Dorrance)

“Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.”

“Do it now, not tomorrow, not next week, next month…DO IT NOW!”

“Don’t Quit! Never quit! Don’t even think about quitting. Don’t Go There!”

“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.”
- Pat Riley, basketball coach

“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else.
It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits.
There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
(World’s greatest martial artist – Bruce Lee)

“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
- Michael Jordan, world’s greatest basketball player

“Fall seven times, stand up eight”" – Japanese proverb

“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should accomplish with your ability.” – John Wooden

“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths instead of your weaknesses, on your powers instead of your problems.”
Paul J. Meyer

“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.”
- Sir Edmund Hillary, first man to conquer Mount Everest

“Who doesn’t give it all, gives nothing.”
(Coach Helenio Herrara, who made the Catenaccio system famous with his world class Inter Milan team in the 1960s)

“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories”
(Bjorn Borg, one of tennis’ all time greats, winner of 11 grand slam singles titles)

“He who wants to get to the top must get off his/her bottom.”

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” (Henry Ford)

“The only way I’d worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not on theirs.” (Tommy Lasorda)

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

“In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.”
(Sam Huff)

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

“I’ve always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.” (Akeem Olajuwon)

“Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.” (Unknown)

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” (Unknown)

“The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.”
(Francie Larrieu Smith)

“Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.” (Vince Lombardi)

“There is no I in TEAM.” (Unknown)

“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.” (Grace Lichtenstein – American Writer & Editor)

“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” (Vince Lombardi)

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
(Mahatma Gandhi)

“I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say ‘We’ll just have to see.” (Dick Fosbury won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Games after he invented a revolutionary high-jump technique)

“One accusation you can’t throw at me is that I’ve always done my best.” (Alan Shearer)

“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.” (Muhammad Ali)

“The mind is the athlete; the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.”
(Bryce Courtenay)

“Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
(Frank Outlaw)

“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.” (Grace Lichtenstein – American Writer & Editor)

“I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win – if you don’t, you won’t.”
(Bruce Jenner, 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist, Decathlon)

“It is lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.” (Muhammad Ali)

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

“Find your passion and make it happen. Be on a mission and live your life on purpose. Be motivated by your desire to achieve rather than your fear of failure” (Gary Mack)