Dot Richardson
"Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates."
Magic Johnson
"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
"In the battle of life, it is not the critic who counts; nor the one who points out how the strong person stumbled, or where the doer of a deed could have done better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who does actually strive to do deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends oneself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he or she fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."
Special Olympics Oath
"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have late minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
Muhammed Ali
"I've never been afraid to fail."
Michael Jordan
"Champions expect pain, endure pain, and never complain."
Unknown
"Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that, plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself."
Merlin Olsen
"Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Somewhere, someplace there is a person that is practicing while you are not, and when you face that person face to face he will beat you."
Unknown
"If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record."
Unknown
"There are times when you're tired and times when you don't believe in yourself. That's when you have to stick it out and draw on the confidence that you have deep down beneath all the doubts and worries."
Jim Abbott
"For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes not that you won or lost--but how you played the game!"
Grantland Rice
"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."
Dan Gable
"I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down."
Joe Dimaggio
"You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do."
A.J. Kitt
"Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is."
Catfush Hunter