"If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise."

~ Knut Rockne ~

"I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism.  Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas."

~ Mia Hamm~

"Concentration and dedication - the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost."

~ Tom Seaver~

"Winning doesn't always mean being first.  Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before."

~ Bonnie Blair ~

"I missed more than 9,000 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 again in my life.  And that is why I succeed."

~ Michael Jordan ~

"If you are prepared, you will be confident, and you will do the job."

~ Tom Landry ~

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

~ John Wooden ~

"What you have, give.  Because what you save, you lose forever."

~ Brant Ust ~

"Play for your own self-respect and respect of your teammates."

~ Dan McGugin ~

"I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind.  Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well.  A lot of times, my chief rival is just me."

~ Venus Williams ~

"Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player.  Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't.  Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle.  But it doesn't mean I give up."

~ Mia Hamm ~

"Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going."

~ Jim Ryun ~

"Few burdens are heavy when everyone lifts."

~ Author Unknown ~

"I believe in discipline.  You can forgive incompetence.  You can forgive lack of ability.  But one thing you cannot forgive is lack of discipline."

~ Forrest Gregg ~

"Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team."

~ Scottie Pippen ~

"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary.  When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."

~ Tommy Lasorda ~

"I kept myself calm by making sure I didn't concentrate on anything I couldn't control."

~ B.J. Bedform ~

"If you leave yourself an out, you're setting yourself up for failure."

~ Michael Weiss ~

"To give less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

~ Steve Prefontaine ~

"It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage."

~ Venus Williams

"You can't depend on other people, you have to run your own race."

~ Joan Benoit-Samuelson ~

"If a team is to reach its potential, each player must willingly subordinate his own personal goals to the good of the team."

~ Bud Wilkinson ~

"Ability is what you're capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it."

~ Lou Holtz ~

"Either you have dreams or you live your dreams.  I'm not all that remarkable.  I just keep putting one foot in front of the other until I get to where I have to go."

~ Zoe Koplowitz ~

"You can accomplish so much with a strong will.  Just do your best.  No matter what.  Don't let negative thoughts creep in.  Don't talk yourself out of anything."

~ Rebecca Twig ~

"Winning is only half of it.  Having fun winning is the other half ."

~ Bum Phillips ~

"Here's how I'm going to beat you.  I'm going to outwork you.  That's it.  That's all there is to it."

~ Pat Summitt ~

"Motivation is everything.  You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people.  Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people."

~ Lee Iacocca ~

"There is that interdependence and that strength you get from a team, that the group is greater than any individual."

~ Pete Newell ~

"You can't let nobody run your train ."

~ Labron James ~

"Nobody who gave their best effort has ever regretted it."

~ George Halas ~

"The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you."

~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee ~

"I decided I wasn't going to come down.  I was going to fly.  I was going to stay up in the air forever."

~ Jesse Owens ~

"My teammates are the ultimate motivation.  They mean everything to me.  They are the reason I want to be at my best."

~ Julie Foudy ~

"Do you have the heart to push yourself?  If you don't, find a way to get it because talent will only get you so far.  You've got to be hungry.  You've got to have heart.  That's just reality."

~ Tiffany Milbrett ~

"Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself."

~ Roger Staubach ~

"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."

~ Pat Tyson ~

"Within each of us is a hidden store of determination.  Determination wins the race when all is lost."

~ Roger Dawson ~

"There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't.  What you've got to do is turn around and say, "I can.  Watch me."

~ Layne Beachley ~

"In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."

~ Vince Lombardi ~

"My goal is to be able to play wherever my team needs me."

~ Chris Bosh ~

"Teamwork is the essence of life."

~ Unknown Author ~

"I have seen that in any great undertaking, it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself."

~ Lone Man ~

"Most things that were once believed impossible are now commonplace."

~ Author Unknown ~

"Confidence is contagious.  So is lack of confidence."

~ Author Unkonwn ~

"Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."

~ Mike Ditka ~

"You can't worry about what somebody else is doing.  You come out and work hard every day.  You play and let your performance speak for you.  If things don't work out, at least you know you gave it everything you had."

~ Clif Groce ~

"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."

~ Vince Lombardi ~

"Players don't care how much I know until they know how much I care."

~ Frosty Westering ~

"Failures are expected by loser, ignored by winners."

~ Joe Gibbs ~

"I'm kind of a quiet leader, and I just try to lead by example.  But then sometimes you have to say something."

~ Chamique Shaunta Holdsclaw ~

"Doing your best is more important than being the best."

~ Shannon Miller ~

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"

~ John Wooden ~

"I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm, who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women.  they ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete."

~ Jennie Finch ~

"There are positive and negative thoughts.  And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively ."

~ Angelo Dundee ~

"Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow."

~ Brigham Young ~

"My mind is my biggest asset.  I expect to win every tournament I play."

~ Tiger Woods ~

"People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone would ever hope to bring about ."

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~

"Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus.  The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same time you've got to have this absolute total control.  You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well."

~ Cathy Freeman ~

"I keep telling my kids - whether you achieve your goal or not is not the most important thing.  Putting yourself in position to achieve those goals is what's important."

~ Steve Scott ~

"If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue."

~ Pat Riley ~

"Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal ."

~ Aristotle ~

"Don't let winning make you soft.  Don't let losing make you quit.  Don't let your teammates down in any situation ."

~ Larry Bird ~

"To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations - different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching."

~ Sue Bird ~

""Success - it's what you do with what you've got."

~ Woody Hayes ~

"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points."

~ Knute Rockne ~

"I've learned that failure precedes success, and the right decisions are an extension of the wrong ones."

~ Alex Spanos ~

"To win you have to risk loss."

~ Jean-Claude Killy ~

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, and civilization work."

~ Vince Lombardi ~

"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete.  You can be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals."

~ Sir Edmund Hillary ~

"Have confidence in yourself and don't let people put you down or make you feel worthless, because the more they put you down, the more you need to get back up and prove how wrong they are."

~ Layne Beachley ~

"A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are."

~ Ara Parseghian ~

"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 ~

"Hard work has made it easy.  That is my secret.  That is why I win."

~ Nadia Comaneci ~

"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 ~

"Never look where you're going.  Always look where you want to go."

~ Bob Ernst ~