SPORTS QUOTES
"If your mind can conceive it, and your heart can believe it, then you CAN ACHIEVE IT!!!"
Unknown
"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
"A good coach will make their players see what they can be rather than what they are."
Ara Parasheghian
"Don't get mad, get better."
Cindy Bristow
"You play for the name on the front, not the name on the back."
Duane Sutter
"When anyone tells me I can't do anything...I'm just not listening anymore."
Florence Griffith-Joyner
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
John Wooden
"Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it. "
Mark Allen
"I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down. "
Mia Hamm
"I never thought about losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right....We all have to take defeats in life. "
Muhammad Ali
"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
"A successful team beats with one heart."
Sarah Redmond
"Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you do repeatedly."
Shaquille O'Neal
"The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle."
Unknown
"There is no glory in practice, but without practice there is no glory."
Unknown
"A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be."
Unknown
"Whether you place first or place last, remember there are people who would give anything just to be competing."
Unknown
"Pain is Temporary. Pride is Forever."
Unknown
"To give less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
Steve Prefontaine
"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."
Tom Landry
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
Thomas Jefferson
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
Robert F. Kennedy
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The more I train, the more I realize I have more speed in me."
Leroy Burrell
"The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves."
Unknown
"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired- you quit when the gorilla is tired."
Robert Strauss
"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."
Charlie Finley
"A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for."
Unknown
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
John Wooden
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.""
Vince Lombardi
"You have no control over what the other [team] does. You only have control over what you do. "
A J Kitt
Unknown
"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
"A good coach will make their players see what they can be rather than what they are."
Ara Parasheghian
"Don't get mad, get better."
Cindy Bristow
"You play for the name on the front, not the name on the back."
Duane Sutter
"When anyone tells me I can't do anything...I'm just not listening anymore."
Florence Griffith-Joyner
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
John Wooden
"Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it. "
Mark Allen
"I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down. "
Mia Hamm
"I never thought about losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right....We all have to take defeats in life. "
Muhammad Ali
"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
"A successful team beats with one heart."
Sarah Redmond
"Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you do repeatedly."
Shaquille O'Neal
"The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle."
Unknown
"There is no glory in practice, but without practice there is no glory."
Unknown
"A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be."
Unknown
"Whether you place first or place last, remember there are people who would give anything just to be competing."
Unknown
"Pain is Temporary. Pride is Forever."
Unknown
"To give less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
Steve Prefontaine
"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."
Tom Landry
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
Thomas Jefferson
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
Robert F. Kennedy
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The more I train, the more I realize I have more speed in me."
Leroy Burrell
"The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves."
Unknown
"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired- you quit when the gorilla is tired."
Robert Strauss
"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."
Charlie Finley
"A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for."
Unknown
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
John Wooden
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.""
Vince Lombardi
"You have no control over what the other [team] does. You only have control over what you do. "
A J Kitt