Dick Vermeil
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things."
Joe Paterno
"When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory."
Richard Corman
"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."
Gail Devers
"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose."
Keven Arnold (Fred Savage),The Wonder Years
"I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love."
Alabama, "Angels Among Us"
"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming."
Helen Keller
"Playing your favorite sport is like being able to get candy when you're at the store with your mom. Being on the field and having all your problems drift away for the two hours you play is like the most relaxing thing I can think of."
Danielle Ballentine
"Each warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on the important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute. In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart."
Pat Riley
"Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports."
Mia Hamm
"Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they fall short, sharing that journey is an experience they'll never forget. It can teach some of the most fundamental and important human values: dedication, perseverance, hard work, and teamwork. It also teaches us how to handle our success and cope with our failure. So, perhaps the greatest glory of sport is that is teaches us so much about life itself."
Ahmad Rashad
"I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body--fairly, squarely, by the rules--to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle--victorious."
Bela Karolyi
"All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure."
Roger Staubach
"Competitive sports are played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch court, the space between your ears."
Bobby Jones
"The strongest people are not always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose."
Ashley Hodgeson
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway."
Roger Staubach
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."
Dr. Benjamin Spock