Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.
Grace Lichtenstein [...]
Possession of the ball is the key to winning in football, basketball, and the game of life.
Laing Burns Jr.
Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
David Ogilvy
In life as in a football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard.
Theodore Roosevelt
Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.
Aristotle
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You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
James Corbett
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin
You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.
J. Askenberg
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. Tommy Lasorda
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My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. Wilma Rudolph
