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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." — Babe Ruth "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." — Babe Ruth "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." — Babe Ruth "Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games." — Babe Ruth "Heroes get remembered, but legends never die." — Babe Ruth "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success." — Babe Ruth "Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course: the space between your ears." — Bobby Jones "Golf is the closest game to the game we call life." — Bobby Jones "I never learned anything from a match that I won." — Bobby Jones "The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two." — Bobby Jones "All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid." — Cy Young "A pitcher has got to be good and he has got to be lucky to get a no-hit game." — Cy Young "I never had a sore arm. I always figured if I kept my arm in shape I could pitch until I was fifty." — Cy Young "People come to see you pitch, not to watch you walk batters." — Cy Young "There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer." — Honus Wagner "I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars." — Honus Wagner "It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square." — Honus Wagner "I don't want my picture in cigarettes, but I don't want the company to lose money on my account." — Honus Wagner "I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it." — Jack Johnson "I am not a disgrace to my people. I am the first Negro heavyweight champion of the world." — Jack Johnson "For every point I'm given, I'll have earned two." — Jack Johnson "When the strategy is right, the fight is already half won." — Jack Johnson "The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevit…" — Jesse Owens "We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes determination, self-discipline, and e…" — Jesse Owens "The only victory that counts is the one over yourself." — Jesse Owens "I cannot decide whether I was well named or not. Many a time the name has stirred me to victory." — Jim Thorpe "Thanks, King." — Jim Thorpe "I never was content unless I was trying my skill in some game against my playmates." — Jim Thorpe "Nobody is going to make a spectacle out of me." — Jim Thorpe "Win or lose, do it fairly." — Knute Rockne "Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points." — Knute Rockne "Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure." — Knute Rockne "One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it." — Knute Rockne "The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team." — Knute Rockne "The road to success is always under construction." — Arnold Palmer "Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character." — Arnold Palmer "Champions keep playing until they get it right." — Billie Jean King "Pressure is a privilege — it only comes to those who earn it." — Billie Jean King "Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball." — Billie Jean King "I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion." — Billie Jean King "I knew I could do it. I just had to believe in myself." — Dawn Fraser "You have got to love what you are doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or soreness or all the…" — Gordie Howe "All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity." — Gordie Howe "Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety." — Jack Nicklaus "Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation." — Jack Nicklaus "The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning." — Jack Nicklaus "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." — Jackie Robinson "I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." — Jackie Robinson "The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time." — Jackie Robinson "Above anything else, I hate to lose." — Jackie Robinson "He can run, but he can't hide." — Joe Louis "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die." — Joe Louis "Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy." — Joe Louis "Why would I want to do anything else? This is what I was born to do." — Joe Louis "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." — Muhammad Ali "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was." — Muhammad Ali "Don't count the days; make the days count." — Muhammad Ali "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." — Muhammad Ali "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." — Muhammad Ali "I hated every minute of it. But I said, 'Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'" — Muhammad Ali "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of…" — Pele "The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning." — Pele "Everything is practice." — Pele "I was born to play football, just as Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint." — Pele "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." — Vince Lombardi "The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." — Vince Lombardi "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." — Vince Lombardi "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." — Vince Lombardi "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." — Vince Lombardi "Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work." — Vince Lombardi "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but…" — Vince Lombardi "Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work." — Vince Lombardi "Nobody roots for Goliath." — Wilt Chamberlain "They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds." — Wilt Chamberlain "The man who won't loan his clubs doesn't want his golf to get better." — Wilt Chamberlain "I believe that good things come to those who work." — Wilt Chamberlain "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." — Arthur Ashe "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." — Arthur Ashe "Forget about style; worry about results." — Bobby Orr "Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World." — Bobby Orr "If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win." — Carl Lewis "Life is about timing." — Carl Lewis "My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: get out of the blocks, run your race,…" — Carl Lewis "I do what I do because of the pure joy of it." — Carl Lewis "The ball does not stain." — Diego Maradona "I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight w…" — Diego Maradona "When you win, you don't get carried away. But you don't question yourself when you lose either." — Diego Maradona "In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball." — Diego Maradona "Confidence is a very fragile thing." — Joe Montana "You miss one hundred percent of the plays you don't make." — Joe Montana "When you get in the huddle, if people see a little doubt in your eyes, you've already lost them." — Joe Montana "I think winning is overrated. The most important thing is to never quit." — Joe Montana "I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end." — Larry Bird "A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and…" — Larry Bird "Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds." — Larry Bird "First master the fundamentals." — Larry Bird "I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it." — Larry Bird "All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them." — Magic Johnson "Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates." — Magic Johnson "When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are." — Magic Johnson "There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player …" — Magic Johnson "If you fail to prepare, you are prepared to fail." — Mark Spitz "I think it is a sign of weakness for me to be intimidated by my opponent." — Mark Spitz "The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else." — Martina Navratilova "I think the key is for women not to set any limits." — Martina Navratilova "Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost." — Martina Navratilova "The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is c…" — Martina Navratilova "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." — Mike Tyson "Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it." — Mike Tyson "I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds." — Mike Tyson "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." — Wayne Gretzky "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." — Wayne Gretzky "The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day." — Wayne Gretzky "Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is …" — Wayne Gretzky "I know I'm not going to play forever, but the love I have for the game will never change." — Brett Favre "God blessed me with a lot of things, but the ability to know when to walk away wasn't one of them." — Brett Favre "I just try to go out there and have fun. When I stop having fun, I'll stop playing." — Brett Favre "If I can leave the game of football better than I found it, then I've done my job." — Brett Favre "There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you …" — Derek Jeter "My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium." — Derek Jeter "I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong." — Derek Jeter "The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do." — Kobe Bryant "Everything negative — pressure, challenges — is all an opportunity for me to rise." — Kobe Bryant "I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. But I also have the ability to push through." — Kobe Bryant "Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses." — Kobe Bryant "The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win." — Kobe Bryant "Rest at the end, not in the middle." — Kobe Bryant "I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of wate…" — Kobe Bryant "You cannot be afraid to make mistakes. You cannot play not to lose." — Mario Lemieux "I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not th…" — Mia Hamm "Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it." — Mia Hamm "Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a…" — Mia Hamm "True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts." — Mia Hamm "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been truste…" — Michael Jordan "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." — Michael Jordan "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." — Michael Jordan "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." — Michael Jordan "My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perc…" — Michael Jordan "The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yours…" — Michael Jordan "If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit." — Michael Jordan "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up." — Michael Jordan "I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall." — Serena Williams "I don't like to lose — at anything — yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks." — Serena Williams "Every woman's success should be an inspiration to another. We're strongest when we cheer each other on." — Serena Williams "I've had to learn to fight all my life — got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile, things will work out." — Serena Williams "The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another." — Serena Williams "I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for — getting paid for doing what you love." — Tiger Woods "No matter how good you get, you can always get better, and that's the exciting part." — Tiger Woods "Achievements on the golf course are not what matter, it's what you do off the course that counts." — Tiger Woods "In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play." — Tiger Woods "I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day I saw a man who had no feet, and I realized h…" — Zinedine Zidane "Every day I think about what I can improve. Every single day." — Zinedine Zidane "I am not a star. I am just a football player." — Zinedine Zidane "In football, the result is an impostor." — Zinedine Zidane "I just try to have a positive outlook on things and bring people up rather than bring them down." — Katie Ledecky "You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work, y…" — Katie Ledecky "I like criticism. It makes you strong." — LeBron James "You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed — you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I kno…" — LeBron James "I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it." — LeBron James "Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed." — LeBron James "Ask me to play. I'll play. Ask me to shoot. I'll shoot. Ask me to pass. I'll pass. Ask me to steal, block out…" — LeBron James "You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it." — Lionel Messi "I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year." — Lionel Messi "The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player." — Lionel Messi "It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success." — Lionel Messi "You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get." — Michael Phelps "If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do." — Michael Phelps "I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time." — Michael Phelps "There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no lim…" — Michael Phelps "My goal is to be the best to ever play. I'm going to work every single day to try to do that." — Patrick Mahomes "You've got to learn from your mistakes and get better. That's how you become great." — Patrick Mahomes "I just try to go out and be myself. When I start thinking too much, that's when I mess up." — Patrick Mahomes "It doesn't matter what happened last year. What matters is what we do now." — Patrick Mahomes "I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all." — Simone Biles "I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I'm the first Simone Biles." — Simone Biles "Smiling doesn't win you gold medals." — Simone Biles "It's important to teach our female athletes that it's OK to say no." — Simone Biles "Be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story." — Stephen Curry "Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice." — Stephen Curry "I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball." — Stephen Curry "There's more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other." — Stephen Curry "Make sure you live in the moment and work your butt off every single day." — Stephen Curry "I didn't come this far to only come this far." — Tom Brady "To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to h…" — Tom Brady "A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and …" — Tom Brady "You wanna know which ring is my favorite? The next one." — Tom Brady "If you don't play to win, don't play at all." — Tom Brady "I don't think limits." — Usain Bolt "Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost." — Usain Bolt "There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher." — Usain Bolt "I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation." — Usain Bolt