Quotes on Motivational Sports

A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

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 only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

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

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

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.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

If you're not nervous, it means you don't care.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.