Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman Copy Share Image
The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind. — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will. — Sugar Ray Robinson Copy Share Image
I've always been fortunate in that I've been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I'm… — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that… — Tom Landry Copy Share Image
For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other… — Gary Neville Copy Share Image
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it… — Joe DiMaggio Copy Share Image
The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again. — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought,… — John Bentley Copy Share Image
I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and… — Leisel Jones Copy Share Image
Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and… — Doris Brown Heritage Copy Share Image
I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and… — Dick Fosbury Copy Share Image
In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival… — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
The things you learn from sports - setting goals, being part of a team, confidence - that's invaluable. It's not about trophies… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
I've just been enjoying the training a bit more. I've put too much pressure on myself in the past. Just relax and… — Sophie Edington Copy Share Image
I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself… — Camille Duvall Copy Share Image
The Most Important Thing I Know About the Spirit of Sport... It instills in us the ability to recognize and appreciate the… — Dot Richardson Copy Share Image
It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
One of the most unfortunate things I see when identifying youth players is the girl who is told over the years how… — Anson Dorrance Copy Share Image
Most of the preparedness happens during training every single day, so it's all about getting to a meet and being as relaxed… — Lenny Krayzelburg Copy Share Image
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I… — Bill Tilden Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
