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Quote of the Week
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape - Author unknown
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - Heywood Broun, journalist (1888-1939)
Ride it like you stole it - Favourite quote of Prue Harvey, SWAS athlete, BMX Champion
The day you start telling yourself how good you are is the day you stop trying - author unknown.
Without Passion, summoning motivation is impossible - Daria Joura 2008 selected Olympic Gymnast
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration -Thomas Edison
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. - Steve Young
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do. - Dennis Waitley
"Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals."- Henry Ford
It's a dream until you write it down, and then it’s a goal. - Author Unknown
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor. - Pat Riley
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is - Vince Lombardi
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.- American basketball hall of fame member, John Wooden
Lewis is going to be a champion cause he thinks like a champion - Unknown
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it - Thomas Jefferson
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. - Tom Landry (American football player and coach)
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation - Plato
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. - Jean-Claude Killy (French alpine Skier & triple Olympic champion)
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. -Vince Lombardi
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didnt have a chance to win. - Arnold Palmer
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars". Les (Lester Louis) Brown (1928-) Journalist.
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records. - William A. Ward
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will - Vincent T. Lombardi
It aint over til it's over - Lenny Kravitz
Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally. So, eat lots of chocolate! - Elaine Sherman, Book of Divine Indulgences
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win....Channel your energy. Focus. - Carl Lewis
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat. - Herschel Walker
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. - Joe Paterno
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost - George Shultz
"Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big" - Anonymous
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon
All my life I've wanted to do something big, Something bigger and better than all other jokers - Burt Munro (the worlds fastest Indian)
When you lose – don’t lose the lesson. - author unknown
The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves. - Anonymous
"Superficial goals lead to superficial results" - Attila the Hun
"Superficial goals lead to superficial results" - Attila the Hun
A ship in the harbour is safe. But that's not what ships are built for. - Anonymous
If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? - Retired Dallas Cowboy Quarterback, Don Meredith
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever –Lance Armstrong
I hated every minute of training, but I said "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
- Muhammad Ali
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. - Emerson
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit. - Joe Paterno
When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I'm gonna prove you wrong. - Picabo Street
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them" - Michael Jordan
"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself". - Muhammad Ali
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. ~ Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas
If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race its up to you - Dave Scott, Triathlete
Be who you are and say what you mean because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. (Anonymous)
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. - Ray Knight
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: The would is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Anonymous
"FIx a man's bike and he'll ride for a day, teach a man how to fix his bike and he'll ride forever" - Unknown
In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are - Arnold H. Glasgow
Winners never quit and quitters never win. - Unknown
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a mans determination - Tommy Lasorda
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - Coach Darrel Royal
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.. - Robert Strauss
"When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor". - Pat Riley
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles - Bob Richards, Pole Vaulter
"There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between" - Pat Riley
Stamina is utterly important. And stamina is only possible if it's managed well. People think all they need to do is endure one crazy, intense, burst and their dreams will come true. They are wrong, they are stupidly wrong. - Hugh Macleod
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. - Willie Shoemaker
It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts. - John Wooden
"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer." - John Madden
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. - Michael Jordan
The moment of victory is much too short to live for just that - and nothing else.
- Martina Navratilova
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat. - Herschel Walker
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. - Jo Paterno
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, ………confidence is the key to all the locks.
- Joe Paterno
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win. - Bob Knight
If your busy chasing dreams, your not running fast enough. - author unknown.
Luck is when opportunity meets preparation - author unknown.
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
- Shaquille O'Neal
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