Athlete Quote by Joe Paterno Download Open image “The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” — Joe Paterno ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athlete Effort Hockey Important Inspirational Life Motivational Sports Success Will to win Winning
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference. — Paul Bryant Copy Share Image
The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well… — Eliud Kipchoge Copy Share Image
“The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.Everyone wants to win but not everyone wants to prepare to win. preparing to win is where the determination that you will win, is made. Once the game or test or project is underway, it is too late to prepare to win. The actual game,… — Bobby Knight Copy Share
A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
“You're never as good as you think you are when you win; and you're never as bad as you feel when you lose.” — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren. — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
Those kinds of things all kind of pop into your head, and you try to rectify them by looking at it, making some changes… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
In every life, there have to be some shadows. Look at me. My life has been filled with sunshine. A beautiful and caring wife.… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
I think we played a pretty good football game overall. I think we played as well as we could at this time of the… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
