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The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.
Sep 10, 2025
You have to have fear in order to have courage.
The hardest part of your journey to success will be telling people your crazy dreams and ideas. But I've found as soon as you say your dreams aloud, many people will come to your side and help guide your journey in the right direction. During my 30 year journey with my disease I have discovered that you will always be surrounded by help, support and light if you stay positive in spite of hardships.
Fair-goes are not only for oneself, but for underdogs. Even in international sporting matches Australians have been known to switch from their own side to that of a gallant challenger. Australians love a 'battler', an underdog who is fighting the top dog, although their veneration for him is likely to pass if he comes out from under.
The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.
Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and stronger; that by constant repetition of the same movements he will become more skilful and his muscles more relaxed...He must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it.
When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.
I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said a silent prayer of thanks to God... I had at last achieved something I'd wanted for so long... My insides bubbled with happiness. It was a dream come true.
People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18 I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.
I prefer other people to make judgments about the way I play and to characterize me, rather me describe myself.
I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.
The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
A true champion is someone who wants to make a difference, who never gives up, and who gives everything she has no matter what the circumstances are. A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.
It's not where you start but where you finish.
Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.
In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
But the tricks I use are ones that will hopefully benefit the team.
There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.
Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.
I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.
Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
There are two things you can be certain of: dying and getting the arse as a football coach.
I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
The harder I work the more I live.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues
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.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.