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| Favorite Quote..........Tough times don't last, only tough people - unknown |
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FAVORITE QUOTES
"Tough Times don't last, only tough people" - unknown
"Wrestle EVERY match like it's state finals" - Ty Moore when asked how he approaches each match
"The will to win means nothing, without the will to prepare" -unknown
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"In Trust there is always the Possibility of Betrayal" -Faraz Afshar
Miscellaneous Quotes
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. "
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it. "
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"I'll moider da bum. "
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. "
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. "
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. "
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. "
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. "
- Yogi Berra
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. "
- General George Patton (1885-1945)
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food. "
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The covers of this book are too far apart. "
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. "
- Thomas Jones
"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. "
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"Well done is better than well said. "
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Half this game is ninety percent mental. "
- Yogi Berra
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both
at the same time."
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
If everything's under control, you're going too slow.
-- Mario Andretti
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Sport Quotes
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all 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
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. -—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
Most games are lost, not won.
—Casey Stengel
The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.
—George Shultz
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
—William A. Ward
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
—Charlie Finley
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
—A J Kitt
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
—Archie Griffen, two-time Heisman winner ( 5’9’’)
There’s no substitute for guts.
—Paul “Bear” Bryant
I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
—Alberto Tomba
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the
game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
—Lou Holtz
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
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
—Joe Paterno
We must either find a way or make one.
—Hannibal
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It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
—Muhammad Ali
To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to
inspire you.
—Tony Dorsett
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
—Magic Johnson
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
—Bo Jackson
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
—Gale Sayers
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination
—Tommy Lasorda
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
—Coach Darrel Royal
You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
—Damon Runyon
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
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
—Ronnie Lott
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
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying
with that plan.
—Tom Landry
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
—Unknown
It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into
the practice.
—Eric Lindros
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
—Vidal Sassoon
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
—Jean-Claude Killy
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
—Mark Twain
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
—Lou Brock
Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
—Satchel Paige
If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average.
—M.H. Alderson
When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt.
My instant reaction is, “I’m gonna prove you wrong.”
—Picabo Street
The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I’m starting to believe that.
—Dan O’Brien
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here 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
The game isn’t over till it’s over.
— Yogi Berra
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
—Bob Richards, Pole Vaulter
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
—John Wooden
I’ll always be Number 1 to myself.
—Moses Malone
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
—Thomas Jefferson
When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.
—Bill Shoemaker
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
—Seneca
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
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses,
that’s the day you start to the top.
—O.J. Simpson
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.
—Don Coryell, ex-San Diego Chargers Coach
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
—Chuck Noll, ex-Pittsburgh Steelers Coach
When your are playing for the national championship, it’s not a matter of life or death. It’s more
important than that.
—Duffy Daugherty
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
—Robert F. Kennedy
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: “Get out of the blocks, run
your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win....Channel your energy. Focus.”
—Carl Lewis
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
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
—Thomas Edison
A ship in the harbor is safe. But that’s not what ships are built for.
—Anonymous
The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves.
—Anonymous
Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big.
—Anonymous
You learn you can do your best even when it’s hard, even when you’re tired and maybe hurting a
little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
—Joe Namath
Winning isn’t everything, wanting to is.
—Anonymous
If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end.
—Julius Erving
Confidence is a very fragile thing.
—Joe Montana
If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can
be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race—it’s up to you.
—Dave Scott, Triathlete
I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit
trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.
—Arnold Palmer
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them.
—Robert Frost
The more I train, the more I realize I have more speed in me.
—Leroy Burrell
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
—Author unknown
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
—Unknown
I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.
—Jean-Claude Killy
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
—Samuel Johnson
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for
myself.
—Shannon Miller
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
—Bruce Jenner
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
—Van Morrison
He who stops being better stops being good.
—Oliver Cromwell
The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than
you were the day before.
—Steve Young
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
—Kikuyu proverb
I know that I’m never as good or bad as any single performance. I’ve never believed my critics
or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena.
—Charles Barkley
A winner never whines.
—Paul Brown
What’s the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
—Terry Bradshaw
Ain’t no chance if you don’t take it.
—Guy Clark
In war there is no substitute for victory.
—Douglas MacArthur
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the
only ones who do what you do.
—Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead |
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