Steve Prefontaine (USA Track & Field)
Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice The Gift.
I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
Michael Jordan (NBA player)
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.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
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.
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.
Vince Lombardi (NFL coach)
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.