"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
--George Herman "Babe" Ruth
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."
--Hank Aaron
"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."
--George Shultz
"Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want."
--Hannah Whitall Smith
"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result."
--Michael Jordan
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat."
--Queen Victoria
"I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech."
--H. Jackson Browne
"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers."
--Brian Tracy
"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, thats the day you start to the top."
--O.J. Simpson
"When you win, nothing hurts."
--Joe Namath
"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record."
--Jan McKeithen
"You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose."
--Charles Lynch
"Never let defeat have the last word."
--Tibetan Proverb
"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely."
-- Anonymous
"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
--Vince Lombardi
"Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again."
--Vince Lombardi
"Success demands singleness of purpose."
--Vince Lombardi
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
--Winston Churchill
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
--Abraham Lincoln
"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result."
--Vince Lombardi
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
--Vincent T. Lombardi
"The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move."
-- John Wooden
"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."
--Joe Paterno
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
--Elbert Hubbard
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
--Will Rogers
"I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. "
--Bruce Jenner
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."
--Lou Holtz
"Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again."
-- Michael Johnson
"There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake."
-- Robert Fripp
"Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure."
--Dell Crossword
"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."
--Anonymous
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The harder you train, the easier the game."
"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it."
--Author Unknown
"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
--Billie Jean King
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse."
--Unknown
“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are."
--Muhammad Ali
"Act as though it is impossible to fail."
--Anonymous
"Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently."
--Zig Ziglar
"View every problem as an opportunity..."
--Joseph Sugarman
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
--Lou Holtz
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
--Anonymous
"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."
--Babe Ruth
"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. "
--George Brett
"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."
--Jim Murray
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
