Quotes on Athletic Competition

In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.