Quotes on Motivational Sports

There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.

I had a clear vision of myself winning the Mr. Universe contest. It was a very spiritual thing, in a way, because I had such faith in the route, the path, that there was never a question in my mind that I would make it.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.

I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.