"For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try and beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try and accomplish in the future"
--Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympic Gold Medalist
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Former U. S. President
"I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done."
--Coach Mike Ditka
"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and
growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."
- Bruce Lee, Chinese Actor, Martial Artist
"Success is a peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."
-- Coach John Wooden Download the Pyramid of Success at www.CoachWooden.com
"The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else."
-- Lenny Wilkins
"Professional coaches measure success in rings. College coaches measure success in championships. High school coaches measure success in titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles"
-- Unknown
"Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it."
-- Joe Kapp College Football Hall of Fame Former Cal Bears Coach
"Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking I can complete every pass"
-- Ron Jaworski
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be"
-- Wayne Gretzky Hockey Great and Coach
"The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success"
-- Coach John Wooden
"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it"
-- Tom Landry Super Bowl Champion Coach, Dallas Cowboys
September 11, 1924 – February 12, 2000
"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating as a guitar string"
-- Pele, Soccer Legend
"Coaches have to watch what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear"
-- John Madden Super Bowl Champion, Da Raiders
"Winning is only half of it. Having FUN winning is the other half"
-- Coach Bum Phillips
"I like thinking big..if your going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big"
-- Donald Trump, Business Coach and Entrepreneur
--Pat Riley
NBA Champion Coach and Player
"Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it"
-- Pat Riley
"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities"
-- Vic Braden
Tennis Coach
"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have"
--Vince Lombardi
"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days you feel good"
-- Jerry West
NBA Coach & Legend
"It is the attitude of the players, not their skills, that is the biggest factor in determining whether you win or lose"
-- Harry Sinden
NHL Hockey Coach
"Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy"
-- Mike Ditka
Super Bowl Champion Coach and NFL Player
"No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal"
-- Bonnie Blair
U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist
"Don't mistake activity for achievement"
-- Coach John Wooden
"The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner"
-- Joe Paterno
NCAA Champion Coach
"One player practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it"
-- Knute Rockne
Legendary Notre Dame Coach
"Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers"
--Pat Riley
Champion NBA Coach
"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all 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."
-- Vince Lombardi
June 11, 1913 -- September 3, 1970
"I want you to forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field"
-- Larry Gelwix, Rugby Coach
"The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but rising again after you fall"
-- Vince Lombardi
June 11, 1913 -- September 3, 1970
"Don't permit the fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasion, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all."
-- Coach John Wooden
October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take"
-- Wayne Gretzky Hockey Great and Coach
