"You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself" (Larry Brown) // "The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning." (Pelé) // "Everything is practice." (Pelé) // "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." (Michael Jordan) // "If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win." (Carl Lewis) // "You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get." (Michael Phelps) // "I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion"." (Muhammad Ali) // "The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before." (Rafael Nadal) // "If you don’t lose, you cannot enjoy the victories." (Rafael Nadal) // "I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments." (Roger Federer) // "You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it." (Roger Federer) // "Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates." (Magic Johnson) // "Once something is a passion, the motivation is there." (Michael Schumacher) // "I always thought records were there to be broken." (Michael Schumacher) // "I get up in the morning looking for an adventure." (George Foreman) // "My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders." (Miguel Indurain) // "Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there." (Bo Jackson) // "I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." (Michael Jordan) // "It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." (Vince Lombardi) // "There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do." (Derek Jeter) // "It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters." (Paul “Bear” Bryant) // "One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team." (Kareem Abdul Jabbar) // "If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail." (Mark Spitz) // "My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me." (Diego Maradona) // "You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it." (Lionel Messi) // "Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists." (Cristiano Ronaldo) // "Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise." (Kobe Bryant) // "If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail." (Kobe Bryant) // "You have to be able to accept failure to get better." (Lebron James) // "I like criticism. It makes you strong." (Lebron James) // "If you are afraid of failure you don't deserve to be successful." (Charles Barkley) // "I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end." (Larry Bird) // "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." (Babe Ruth) // "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 the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." (Muhammad Ali) // "No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part." (Tiger Woods) // "Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow." (Manny Pacquiao) // "Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement." (Marv Levy) // "Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't you don't feel like doing them." (Julius Erving) // "Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible." (Frank L. Gaines) // "When you win, you don't get carried away .If you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far." (Diego Maradona) // "Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind." (Jackie Joyner Kersee) // "It's not the size of the man, but the size of his heart that matters." (Evander Holyfield) // "I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability." (Bruce Jenner) // "I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat." (Tom Landry) // "Winners never quit and quitters never win." (Vince Lombardi) // "What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time." (Don Zimmer) // "Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." (Pat Riley) // "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." (Tommy Lasorda) // "Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character." (John Wooden) // "The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent." (Arnold Schwarzenegger) // "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." (Michael Jordan) // "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." (John Wooden) // "If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat." (Herschel Walker) // "A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." (William Harrison “Jack” Dempsey) // "Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears." (Laird Hamilton) // "Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't." (Jerry Rice) // "You can't win unless you learn how to lose." (Kareem Abdul Jabbar) // "If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters." (Michael Owen) // "The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital." (Joe Paterno) // "Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you." (Arnold Palmer) // "NYou're never a loser until you quit trying." (Mike Ditka) // "The best motivation always comes from within." (Michael Johnson) // "A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." (Jack Dempsey) // "Miss 100% of Shots You Don't Take." (Wayne Gretzky) // " You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good." (Jerry West) // "Solo los que arriesgan yendo lejos, pueden encontrar lo lejos que pueden llegar." (T.S. Eliot) // "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." (Babe Ruth) // "Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up." (Dean Karnazes) // "A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning." (Billie Jean King) // "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." (Michael Jordan)