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I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.
Sep 17, 2025
Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.
The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector.
You are worth so much more than points on a scoreboard or wins vs. losses. The best athletes I know are also some of the best people I've ever met.
To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're around the best athletes in the world, and having the whole world watching.
When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.
Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Steve Young: Here's a guy that is really a talent. He's the best athlete we ever had. He could run, he developed into a good thrower. He's smart. He's intense. He could make it in the movies. Really, he's got it all. He was coachable, but he had his own ideas. He never let up, not even in practice. I'd take Steve Young every year.
The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.
Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.
The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.
If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.
To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal.
Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.
It's all about the journey, not the outcome.
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
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've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.
It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.
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.