The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up. — Rod Laver Copy Share Image
You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best. — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake. — Timothy Gallwey Copy Share Image
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit… — Simon Gray Copy Share Image
The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to… — Chris Evert Copy Share Image
In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust. — Jim Abbott Copy Share Image
In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go… — Dot Richardson Copy Share Image
Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena. — Anson Dorrance Copy Share Image
Be fast on the field physically, but play slow mentally. Basically, play hard but play smart. — Kevin Leveille Copy Share Image
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. — Don Coryell Copy Share Image
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
In our lives we will encounter many challenges, and tomorrow we face one together. How we accept the challenge and attack the… — Beth Anders Copy Share Image
To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes… — Dianne Holum Copy Share Image
Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the… — Steve Garvey Copy Share Image
It's never been easy. But I've always wanted to play hockey. I love hockey. I'd rather play hockey than do anything else.… — Manon Rheaume Copy Share Image
That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else? — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. — Satchel Paige Copy Share Image
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball. — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts. — Earl Campbell Copy Share Image
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr Copy Share Image
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. — Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias Copy Share Image
