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Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Oct 1, 2025
If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
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.
Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
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.
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.
You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
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.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.
Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.