Quotes to Practice, Play and Live By



Attitude

They can because they think they can.
- Virgil

They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
- Latin Proverb

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
- Ronnie Lott

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
- Michael Johnson

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
- Anonymous

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
- Jim Rohn

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
- Benjamin Franklin

There's no substitute for guts.
- Paul Bear Bryant

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
- Anonymous

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We may have all come from different ships, but we’re on the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr


Character

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
- Henry David Thoreau

Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
- George Dana Boardman

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
- Anonymous

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
- T. Alan Armstrong


Perseverance

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
- Jack Dempsey

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
- Tommy Lasorda

You are never a loser until you quit trying.
- Mike Ditka

Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge


Preparation

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
- Joe Paterno

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Darrell Royal

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
-Vidal Sassoon

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Jim Rohn

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
- Henry W. Longfellow

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden


Winning

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
- Chuck Noll

Most ball games are lost, not won.
- Casey Stengel

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
- George Shultz