“Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.” ~Muhammad Ali, Boxing
“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” ~Jack Dempsey, Boxing
“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.” ~Michael Jordan, Basketball
“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.” ~Mia Hamm, Soccer
“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, Cycling Champion
“Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.” ~Roger Bannister, Running
“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” ~Michael Phelps, Swimming
“Pain is temporary, glory…lasts forever!” ~George Best, Soccer
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going”. ~Beverly Sills, Gymnast
“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.”
Vincent Lombardi, Football coach
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.” Wayne Gretzky, Ice Hockey
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” ~John Wooden
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.” ~Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bodybuilding
“Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.” ~Billie Jean King, Tennis
“I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You’ve got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it”.
Chuck Norris, Karate
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” ~Vince Lombardi, Football Coach
“The person that said winning isn’t everything, never won anything.” Mia Hamm, Soccer
“The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.” ~John Madden, NFL Football Coach
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.” ~John Wooden, College Basketball Coach
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