Quotes on Greatest Sports

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.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

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

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.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

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

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

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.

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

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

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

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

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

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

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.