Quotes on Motivational Sports

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

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.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

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

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.