Quotes on Great Sports

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

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.

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.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.