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Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.
Sep 17, 2025
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Great moments are born from great opportunities.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
The principle is competing against yourself.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
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.
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.
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.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
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.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire 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.
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.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Never mistake activity for achievement.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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.
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.