| A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.– Jack Dempsey |
| A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.– Mary Lou Retton |
| Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.– William A. Ward |
| Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.– Jackie Joyner-Kersee |
| Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.– Arnold Palmer |
| An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.– Emil Zatopek |
| Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential. – Liane Cardes |
| Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. – Pat Riley |
| Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.– Jim Valvano |
| Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.– Dan Gable |
| Good is not good enough when better is expected.– Vin Scully |
| I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.– Bruce Jenner |
| If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.– Ronnie Lott |
| If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.– Ben Hogan |
| If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win. – Carl Lewis |
| If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.– Mark Spitz |
| If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.– Mario Andretti |
| If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.– Herschel Walker |
| 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 |
| It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.– Vince Lombardi |
| I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. - Tom Landry |
| Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears. - Laird Hamilton |
| Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.– Ross Perot |
| Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.– Doug Williams |
| Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.– George Halas |
| Number one is just to gain a passion for running. To love the morning, to love the trail, to love the pace on the track. And if some kid gets really good at it, that’s cool too.– Pat Tyson |
| One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.– Frank L. Gaines |
| Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.– Marv Levy |
| Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. – Bo Jackson |
| Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.– George F. Will |
| The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.– Tommy Lasorda |
| The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.– Ken Doherty |
| The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.– Pele |
| The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.– Steve Young |
| The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. – John Madden |
| There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.– Pat Riley |
| There may be people that have more talent than you, but theres no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do. – Derek Jeter |
| What do do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.– Dean Smith |
| When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less.– Paul Brown |
| When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.– Bill Shoemaker |
| When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.– Terry Bradshaw |
| Win If You Can, Lose If You Must, But NEVER QUIT!– Cameron Trammell |
| 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 |