Archive for Quotes
Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes
Posted by: | CommentsYou have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.
It’s hard to talk about yourself.
Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There’s nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
I’m a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he’ll have to do it again to make me believe him.
It’s different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
You just don’t heal that easy unless you’re young.
Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it’s better to give than to receive.
We’re all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
Mental toughness!
Posted by: | CommentsMental toughness. „This is what separates mountain people from valley people. The 2 main elements are: ‘Persistent Resilience’, this means being committed and being able to go the distance; and having a ‘no limits attitude’- once through that line today, there is no sense of having arrived, because there will always be another line.
Frank Dick, OBE, International Sports coach, President of the European Athletics Coaches Association, Creator of the IAAF Academy and UK Sporting Hero.
Success!? How do you define SUCCESS?
Posted by: | CommentsSuccess for some may mean kissing that medal you’ve won or lifting that trophy above your head and showing it to an adoring crowd, to others it could mean finally making your life long dreams come true or making lots of money. Some see success as just getting their name on the team sheet after months or years in the reserves. Achieving one’s goals in life, and reaching one’s potential is another sign of success. No matter how you look at success, one of the best ways to keep yourself on the right on road to it is reading quotes and viewing motivational cartoons written by some of the best thinkers and successful people in the world. Below are some of my favorite quotes, which can keep you motivated and inspired onto success.
Success comes in cans; failure in can’ts” – Unknown Author
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win–if you don’t, you won’t. Bruce Jenner, Olympic Gold Medalist, Decathlon
Don’t give up at half-time. Concentrate on winning the second half. Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant
Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there. Venus Williams
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. Vince Lombardi
Champions keep playing until they get it right. Billie Jean King
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. Arnold H. Glasgow
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is the way great spiritual giants are produced. Swami Vivekananda
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier
Cartoon – Hang In There!
Posted by: | CommentsWhen you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vince Lombardi – some of his great quotes. Part 2
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Vince Lombardi – some of his great quotes!
Posted by: | CommentsCoaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
There’s ten great ones – another ten to follow. Stay tuned!
The W’s of Success!
Posted by: | CommentsThe Six W’s: Work will win when wishing won’t.
– Todd Blackledge
Some other W’s of success: Willpower , winner, will-to-win, World-beater, wealth..er, I can’t think of any more. Any ideas?
Sports Quotes about – Winners!
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I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people’s accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man’s failures.
Earl Warren
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
A victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille
Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
Oprah Winfrey
Each player must accept the cards that life deals him or her. But once in hand one must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley
The trouble with referees is that they just don’t care which side wins.
Tom Canterbury
The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
Author Unknown
The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.
Nick Seitz
Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.
Martina Navratilova
Players win games, teams win championships.
Bill Taylor
What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.
Joe Paterno
Going Out A winner!
Posted by: | Comments“I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.”
Johnny Gray
DON’T use performance enhancing drugs!
Posted by: | Comments“When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: ‘Did I win this medal?’”
Kip Keino, Olympic gold medalist in the 1500 and the 3000 meter steeplechase, from a speech urging young athletes not to use performance enhancing drugs.