Here are some of my favorite quotes. Maybe you will find them inspiring also.
You have to wake up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
The secret of greatness is simple:
do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
- Wilfred A. Peterson
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consider the postage stamp:
Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
- Josh Billings
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A strong man stands up for himself,
a stronger man stands up for others
If you want something in life,
you have to go after it, work for it.
No one is going to just give it to you.
- Bill Bruce
Live everyday as if it’s your last
Someday it will be.
A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big.
Make new friends, but keep the old.
One is silver, the other gold.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Coach Darrel Royal
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
There's no substitute for guts.
- Paul "Bear" Bryant
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing. The main thing
is to play.
- Nick "the Greek" Dandalos
I think I've always had the skill. But in the past, I've suffered too many mental lapses.
Now, I'm starting to get away from that and my mental discipline and commitment to the game are much better.
I think I'm really taking a good look at the big picture.
That's the difference between being around for the final or watching the final from my sofa at home.
- Andre Agassi
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.
You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should
have or would have done, or what they can't do.
- Dennis Waitley
Everyone faces disappointments at one time or another, but the winners are the ones who refuse to let those disappointments become discouragements.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
A winner never whines.
- Paul Brown
The game isn't over till it's over.
- Yogi Berra
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
- Ronnie Lott
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
- Vincent T. Lombardi
Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Lou Holtz
We must either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
- Bo Jackson
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There's no such thing as life in-between.
- Pat Riley
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
- Magic Johnson
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world,
but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
- Babe Ruth
To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
- Charlie Finley
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
- William A. Ward
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination
- Tommy Lasorda
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
- Archie Griffen
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. - Joe Paterno
To be prepared is half the victory.
- Miguel Cervantes
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired.
- Robert Strauss
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the
determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves
to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vidal Sassoon
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
- Bruce Jenner
We didn't lose, ...we just ran out of time.
- Knute Rockne in response to a question on his teams loss.
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