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Sep 10, 2025
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
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.
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
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.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
The potential for greatness lives within us all.
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.