 In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won't be able to do this.  - Wilson Mizner |
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato |
Champions keep playing until they get it right. - Billie Jean King |
I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal. - Arthur Marshall |
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play. - Boris Becker quote |
Boxing is for men, and is about men and is men. A celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for being lost. - Joyce Carol Oates |
Games lubricate the body and the mind. - Benjamin Franklin |
Sports do not build character...They reveal it. - John Wooden |
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus. - Carl Lewis |
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. - Steve Young |
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. - Emil Zatopek |
Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoleon |
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. - Serena Williams |
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. - Wayne Gretzky |
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. - Joe Theismann |
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That?s the mark of a true professional. - Joe Paterno |
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. - Kareem AbdulJabbar |
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that?s the way to bet. - Damon Runyon |
What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle. - Joe Paterno |
Players win games, teams win championships. - Bill Taylor |
The harder I practice, the luckier I get. - Gary Player |
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi |
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. - Roy Campanella |
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