Monday, October 11, 2010

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. - Janis Joplin

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. -John Smith
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. - Michael Phelps
If you are afraid of failure you don't deserve to be successful! -Charles Barkley
In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, & effort. -Jesse Owens
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do. -Lin Yutang
At one point in your life you either have the things you want or the reasons why you don’t. -Andy Roddick
My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the keys to my destiny. -Elain Maxwell
Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. -Muhammad Ali
When anyone tells me I can't do anything...I'm just not listening anymore. -Florence Griffith-Joyner
It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important. -Pat Riley
In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court & I think the next person is better, I've already lost. -Venus Williams
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. -Marianne Williamson
It's repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. & once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. -Muhammad Ali
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those cards you hold well.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. -Michael Jordan
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. -Unknown
Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by. -Lou Holtz
If you are determined enough & willing to pay the price, you can get it done. -Mike Ditka
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. -Michael Jordan
It is not what happens to you but how you respond to what happens to you.
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. -Arnold Palmer
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. -Muhammed Ali
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. -John Wooden
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of knowing u did your best to become the best that u are capable of being. -John Wooden
Go after your dream, no matter how unattainable others think it is. -Linda Mastandrea
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
I am the greatest; I said that even before I knew I was. -Muhammad Ali
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. -Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. -James Naismith
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. -Dale Carnegie
Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you do repeatedly. -Shaquille O'Neal
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. -Michael Jordan
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. -Lou Holtz
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't. -Jerry Rice
The more I practice, the luckier I get. -Jerry Barber
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. -Carlos Castaneda
There are 3 types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, & those who wonder what happens. -Tommy Lasorda
Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight. -Lance Armstrong
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. -Don Shula
It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up. -Vince Lombardi
The man who wins, is the man who thinks he can. -Vince Lombardi
We all at certain times in our lives find ourselves broken. True strength is found in picking up the pieces
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. -William Arthur Ward
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, It is about learning to dance in the rain.
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. -Larry Bird
Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation. -Jack Nicklaus
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. -Oprah
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great. -Tom Hanks
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? -Marianne Williamson
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. -Michael Jordan
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare. -Bobby Knight
There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored. -Bill Cartwright
We have two options, medically & emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell. -Lance Armstrong
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. -John Wooden
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
A winner never stops trying. -Tom Landry
I am not afraid... I was born to do this. - Joan of Arc... Faith makes all things possible... Believe!!!
Change your thoughts, change your life!
It always seems impossible until its done. -Nelson Mandela
The greatest glory in living, lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela
The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. -Unknown
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in & day out. -Robert Collier
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there. -Venus Williams
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. -Erica Jong
You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. -Vince Lombardi
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it & staying with that plan. -Tom Landry
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. -William James
The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. -Pierre de Coubertin
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. -Lou Holtz
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. -Golda Meir
The difference between a successful person & others is not a lack of strength or knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. -Vince Lombardi
I've failed over & over & over again in my life & that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. -African proverb
The first step before anyone else in the world believes it is that you have to believe it. -Will smith
Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart & expect it to come true. -Joe Montana
Don't count the days, make the days count -Muhammad Ali
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. -Ben Hogan
I had rather attempt something great & fail, than to attempt nothing at all & succeed. -Robert H. Schuller
People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage yours. Live with Passion!
You see things & you say, why? But I dream things that never were & I say, why not? -George Bernard Shaw
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. -Oprah
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A winner never stops trying. -Tom Landry
You're never a loser until you quit trying. -Mike Ditka
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. -Lou Holtz
Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself. -Unknown
People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. -Satchel Paige

For the cynics & the skeptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big & I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles -Lance Armstrong.
One day, you'll be just a memory for some people. Do your best to be a good one.

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