Achievement Quotes

"More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride."

- Dan Gable

"Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams."

- Ben Carson

"As I have said many times, I did not invent jiu jitsu, I just made it better."

- Helio Gracie

"The Art of Jiu-Jitsu is worth more in every way than all of our athletics combined"

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Travis Lutter is like the Michael Jordan of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu."

- Mike Goldberg

"If it wasn’t for me, today the Gracie family would be selling banana’s on the pavement"

- Carlson Gracie Sr.

"Baseball is a game of inches."

- Bob Feller

"Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed."

- Neil Armstrong

"Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before."

- Bonnie Blair

"In the grand opera of life, acknowledgment is the standing ovation that fuels encore performances."

- Theodore Sinclair

"Nothing speaks so strongly of freedom as the fact that the descendants of those who went through great agony — which, thank Heaven, has passed away — have now full opportunities and can help celebrate my fifty years’ work for liberty."

- Susan B. Anthony

""When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.""

- Walter Payton

"Humility makes great men twice honorable."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It takes a big person to do something small."

- Joel Osteen

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

- Thomas A. Edison

"In running, it doesn’t matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, ‘I have finished.’ There is a lot of satisfaction in that."

- Fred Lebow

"All great achievements require time."

- Maya Angelou

"There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious."

- Bill Toomey

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We have met the enemy and they are ours!"

- Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry

"Veni, Vedi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)"

- Julius Caesar

"One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter."

- Ace Frehley

"He’d given all he had, and that’s what made it all worthwhile. He stood and faced his teammates, with pride instead of shame. He knew not that he’d won or lost, but that he’d played the game. And some call him the wrestler, and some call him a man, but he called himself a winner, and the ref held up his hand."

"You know you're a baseball player when your bat is more polished than your car."

"Play like a champion."

"Like a champ."

"Good morning! Waking up is the first victory of the day. Let’s not talk about the rest."

"Real athletes run miles, not yards."

"The greatest gift I've ever been given is the gift of being a mother to my daughter."

"A daughter is a miracle that makes your life worth living."