100. “The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.”
– Ernie Banks
99. “Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.”
– Frank L. Gaines
98. “When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.”
– Bill Shoemaker
97. “Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.”21
– Jackie Joyner-Kersee
96. “I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.”
– Bruce Jenner
95. “A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.”
– Mary Lou Retton
94. “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. And if some kid gets really good at it, that’s cool too.”
– Pat Tyson
93. “Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”
– Ross Perot
92. “You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself.”
– Larry Brown
91. “There may be people that have more talent than you, but theres no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.”63
– Derek Jeter
90. “Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”
– Ted Williams
89. “One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.”
– Knute Rockne
88. “The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.”
– Ken Doherty
87. “An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.”
– Emil Zatopek
86. “Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her.”
– Mia Hamm28
85. “When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.”
– Terry Bradshaw
84. “Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.”
– Doug Williams
83. “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
82. “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.”
– Marv Levy
81. “I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.”
– Tom Landry
80. “Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.”
– Laird Hamilton
79. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.”
– Bo Jackson
78. “I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.”
– Sandy Koufax
77. “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.”
– Ben Hogan
76. “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”
– Rogers Hornsby
75. “Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.”
– William James
74. “Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”
– Mike Singletary
73. “If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average.”
– M.H. Alderson
72. “Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.”
– Liane Cardes
71. “Good is not good when better is expected.”
– Vin Scully
70. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.”
– Tommy Lasorda
69. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
– Billie Jean King
Herb Brooks
“You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.” – Herb Brooks (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
68. “You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.”
– Herb Brooks
67. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.”
– Don Zimmer
66. “If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.”
– Mark Spitz
65.“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.”
– Lou Holtz
64. “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.”
– Matt Biondi
63. “Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.”
– George F. Will
62. “The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”
– Steve Young
John Madden
“The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.” – John Madden (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
61. “The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.”
– John Madden
60. “You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.”
– Arthur Ashe
59. “What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”
– Andre Agassi
58. “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”
– Pele
57. “One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. ”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
56. “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”
– George Halas
55. “Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.”
– Cal Ripken Jr.
54. “You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.”
– Chris Evert
53. “When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less.”
– Paul Brown
52. “The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very
special.”
– Eddie Reese
51. “The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
50. “When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.”
– Joe Frazier
49. “During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years
without ever hitting the ball.”
– Mickey Mantle
48. “I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind.”
– Peyton Manning
47. “Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you.”
– Eddie Robinson
46. “You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.”
– J. Askenberg
45. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”
– Arnold Palmer
44. “Most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside.”
– Brett Favre
43. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
– Michael Jordan
42. “To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.”
– Picabo Street
41. “Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.”
– Lou Brock
40. “You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.”
– Homer Rice
39. “You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave–win or lose.”
– Gordie Howe
38. “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.”
– Hank Aaron
37. “I didn’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on the field and be prepared to play a good game.”
– Tom Landry
36. “If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.”
– Herschel Walker
35. “Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.”
– Bobby Knight
34. “If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.”
– Ronnie Lott
33. “Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”
– Lou Holtz
32. “If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.”
– Carl Lewis
31. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
– Michael Jordan
30. “Make each day your masterpiece.”
– John Wooden
29. “Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”
– Pat Riley
28. “Win If You Can, Lose If You Must, But NEVER QUIT!”
– Cameron Trammell
27. “Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”
– Mike Singletary
26. “If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.”
– Mario Andretti
25. “Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.”
– Ted Williams
24. “What do do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.”
– Dean Smith
23. “Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”
– Larry Bird
22. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”
– Joe Namath
21. “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”
– Michael Phelps
20. “Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.”
– John Wooden
19. “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
– Lance Armstrong
18. “Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”
– Phil Jackson
17. “The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.”
– Joe Paterno
16. “Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.”
– William A. Ward
15. “Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.”
– Satchel Paige
14. “Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there. ”
– Venus Williams
13. “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
– Babe Ruth
12. “It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.”
– Evander Holyfield
11. “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
10. “There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.”
– Pat Riley
9. “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.”
– Jack Dempsey
8. “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
– Yogi Berra
7. “You’re never a loser until you quit trying.”
– Mike Ditka
6. “Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.”
– Jim Valvano
5. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky
4. “The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.”
– Wayne Gretzky
3. “Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”
– Dan Gable
2. “I’ve 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 and over again in my life. And that is why I
succeed.”
– Michael Jordan
1. “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.”
– Vince Lombardi
1. Life is about making an impact, not making an income. –Kevin Kruse
2. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost
5. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
7. 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. –Michael Jordan
8. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart
9. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
10. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
11. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse
12. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
13. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll
16. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
17. The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha
18. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb
19. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
20. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
21. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
22. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
23. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
24. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso
25. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
26. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou
27. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
28. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
29. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
30. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
31. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra
32. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
33. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin
34. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
35. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
36. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus
37. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau
39. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
40. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington
41. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb
42. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
43. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
44. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato
45. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides
46. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
47. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon
48. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
49. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
50. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius
51. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank
52. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
53. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
54. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama
55. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg
56. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle
57. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
58. You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown
59. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie
60. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown
61. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
62. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington
63. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci
64. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti
65. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong
66. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan
67. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin
68. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby
69. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
70. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb
71. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach
72. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot
73. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey
74. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh
75. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown
76. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers
77. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren
78. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray
79. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens
80. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser
81. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks
82. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
83. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey
84. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama
85. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
86. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan
87. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.
88. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
89. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins
90. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem
91. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison
92. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills
93. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt
94. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses
95. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
96. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
97. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln
98. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
99. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin
100. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
101. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs
102. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar