Ultimate Collection of Pregame Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Competitive Spirit

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"I can't imagine anything more rewarding than striving for excellence and giving it your all."

- Michael Jordan

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

- Muhammad Ali

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing."

- Javier Báez

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I've been successful."

- Michael Jordan

"I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"Don't count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying."

- Michael Jordan

"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

"I hated every minute of it [training]. But I said to myself, ‘Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.’"

- Muhammad Ali

"Everyone wants to win. But to truly succeed—whether it is at a sport or at your job or in life—you have to be willing to do the hard work, overcome the challenges, and make the sacrifices it takes to be the best at what you do."

- Ronda Rousey

"Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

- Muhammad Ali

"Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up."

- Rocky Balboa

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”"

- Muhammad Ali

"Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up."

- Gabby Douglas

"The only one who can tell you 'you can't win' is you and you don't have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis-Hill

"Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."

- Ross Perot

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory."

- Les Brown

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?"

- Joe Namath

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Overpower. Overtake. Overcome."

- Serena Williams

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

- Tim Notke

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"You don't have to be better than everybody else, you just have to be better than you ever thought you could be."

- Ken Venturi

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

- Michael Phelps

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsleigh

"If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do."

- Michael Phelps

"It does not matter how many times you get knocked down. What matters is how many times you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"Don't be afraid to fail. Failure is a part of life. The next time you fail, ask yourself, 'What did I learn from that?' and move on."

- Richard Branson

"To give any less than your best is to sacrifice a gift."

- Steve Prefontaine

"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do."

- Derek Jeter

"The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare."

- Juma Ikangaa

"Set your goals high, and don't stop until you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"It's not about winning, it's about the will to win."

- Vince Lombardi

"The will to win is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare to win."

- Bobby Knight

"You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The only limits that exist are the ones you place on yourself."

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Somebody gives you an opportunity, say yes to it. So what if you fail? you won't know if you fail or succeed unless you try."

- Ann Meyers

"The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do."

- Bo Jackson

"I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all."

- Simone Biles

"You don't have to be better than everybody else; you just have to be better than you ever thought you could be."

- Ken Venturi

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

- Confucius

"Courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it."

- Nelson Mandela

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

"I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder."

- Muhammad Ali

"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."

- MIA HAMM

"It doesn’t matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you’ve got."

- Michael Phelps

"I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

"Don’t lose faith in your dreams, keep fighting for what you love, and if you always give everything you have, you’ll be happy no matter what the outcome."

- Lindsey Vonn

"I knew what I wanted to accomplish, and I knew how much work it took to achieve those goals. I then put in the work and trusted in it."

- Kobe Bryant

"You don’t win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential."

- Bobby Orr

"Don’t make excuses. When you have decided to do something, do it. No excuses. Then you are self-disciplined."

- Eliud Kipchoge

"For me it’s the challenge — the challenge to try to beat myself and 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 to accomplish in the future."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"My attitude is that if you push me towards a weakness, I will turn that weakness into a strength."

- Michael Jordan

"Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made."

- Gabby Douglas

"You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation."

- Homer Rice

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you."

- Fred Devito

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

"One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity."

- Nick Saban

"I think team first. It allows me to succeed, and it allows my team to succeed."

- Lebron James

"I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated."

- Emmitt Smith

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way."

- Satchel Paige

"You just can’t beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination."

- Usain Bolt

"You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy."

- Arthur Ashe

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"If you want to be the best, you have to do the things that other people aren’t willing to do."

- Michael Phelps

"Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed in the loss."

- Doug Williams

"The strength of the team is in each individual member…the strength of each member is the team."

- Phil Jackson

"It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul “Bear” Bryant

"A team isn’t a bunch of kids out to win. A team is something you belong to, something you feel, something you have to earn."

- Floyd Mayweather Jr.

"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."

- Michael Jordan

"Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t."

- Jerry Rice

"We all have dreams. But, in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, self discipline, and effort."

- Mark Spitz

"Driven by the moral imperative of paying the price to be great."

- Vince Lombardi

"The only one who can tell you 'you can’t win' is you and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis-Hill

"Somebody gives you an opportunity, say yes to it. So what if you fail? you won’t know if you fail or succeed unless you try."

- Ann Meyers

"Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Liane Cardes

"Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it’s never really over until the whistle blows."

- Alex Morgan

"You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours."

- Herb Brooks

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having troubles off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."

- Hank Aaron

"I’m chasing perfection… and if I don’t get it, I’m going to get this close."

- Kobe Bryant

"I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest."

- Venus Williams

"Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible."

- Michael Phelps

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"The reward is not so great without the struggle…. The triumph can’t be had without the struggle."

- Wilma Rudolph

"Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game."

- Arthur Ashe

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement."

- Arnold Palmer

"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail."

- Mark Spitz

"When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it."

- Lindsey Vonn

"It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don’t count the days; make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you’ll never change the outcome."

- Michael Jordan

"Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character."

- John Wooden

"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

- John Wooden

"The best competition I have is against myself to become better."

- John Wooden

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

- Marv Levy

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vince Lombardi

"A winner is a person that gets up one more time than she is knocked down."

- Mia Hamm

"The highest compliment that you can pay me is that I work hard every day, that I never dog it."

- Wayne Gretzky

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part."

- Tiger Woods

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop until you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win."

- Carl Lewis

"If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat."

- Herschel Walker

"Adversity causes some to break; others to break records."

- William Ward

"You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment."

- Aly Raisman

"You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

- Michael Phelps

"Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you."

- Bethany Hamilton

"It doesn’t matter what your background is or where you came from. If you have dreams and goals, that’s all that matters."

- Serena Williams

"You can't win if you don't play as a unit."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."

- Pat Riley

"I am not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel satisfied with myself. It is my conviction that there are no limits to learning, and that it can never stop, no matter what our age."

- Christiano Ronaldo

"The measure of who we are is how we react if something doesn’t go our way."

- Usain Bolt

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless."

- Mike Krzyzewski

"You can’t control what people say about you and what they think about you. You can’t plan for bad luck. You can only work your hardest and do your best and tell the truth. In the end, it’s the effort that matters. The rest is beyond your control."

- Maria Sharapova

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

- Jesse Owens

"To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms."

- Tom Brady

"Sport teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose - it teaches you about life."

- Billie Jean King

"Fail to prepare, prepare to fail"

- Roy Keane

"Talent is never enough. With few exceptions, the best players are the hardest workers"

- Magic Johnson

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Know yourself and you will win all battles."

- Lao Tzu

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas Alva Edison

"You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life."

- Pete Rose

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best."

- Tim Duncan

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems."

- Michael Jordan

"My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus."

- Carl Lewis

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."

- Joe Paterno

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"It’s at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys."

- Emil Zatopek

"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."

- Wayne Gretzky

"May you always remember to enjoy the road, especially when it’s a hard one."

- Kobe Bryant

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"You control your own wins and losses."

- Maria Sharapova

"I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match."

- Mia Hamm

"For a team to be motivated enough to win, each individual member must be motivated."

- Tom Landry

"It’s not how big you are but how big you play."

- John Wooden

"When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.’"

- Carol Dweck

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game."

- Michael Jordan

"You’re playing a game, whether it’s Little League or Game 7 of the World Series. It’s impossible to do well unless you’re having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there’s pressure. But I just look at it as fun."

- Derek Jeter

"I believe in the impossible because no one else does."

- Florence Griffith Joyner

"Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time."

- Lou Brock

"Don’t practise until you get it right. Practise until you can’t get it wrong."

- Harvey Mackay

"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning."

- Pele

"Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests."

- Derek Jeter

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time."

- Bob Knight

"What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave."

- Andre Agassi

"Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won."

- Billy Bowerman

"The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving."

- Ben Hogan

"I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting."

- Arthur Ashe

"Most of us never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second."

- William James

"In the end, it’s the effort that matters. The rest is beyond your control."

- Maria Sharapova

"Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back … play for her."

- Mia Hamm

"There’s no better feeling than stepping out on the field and stunning them all by doing what none of them thought you could do."

- Ashlyn Harris

"When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that’s when I do it."

- Gertrude Ederle

"Each day I work on getting better, and even the bad days have something good that comes out of them."

- Katie Ledecky

"If you don’t love what you do, you won’t do it with much conviction or passion."

- Mia Hamm

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it."

- Knute Rockne

"Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing it."

- Jesse Owens

"I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice."

- Larry Bird

"You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it."

- George Foreman

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime."

- Babe Ruth

"To go out there and prove what I can do has taught me a lot about who I am. We can push ourselves further. We always have more to give."

- Simone Biles

"If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters."

- Michael Owen

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own."

- Rafael Nadal

"Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit."

- Mary Lou Retton

"Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It’s also a powerful motivator."

- Yogi Berra

"The road to success runs uphill."

- Willie Davis

"I love to compete. That’s the essence of who I am."

- Tiger Woods

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head."

- Gary Player

"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."

- Andre Agassi

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it’s been."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."

- John Wooden

"Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man."

- Pelé

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

- Walter Bagehot

"Success is not about the destination, but the journey."

- Zig Ziglar

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."

- Archie Griffen

"It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens."

- Jillian Michaels

"Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise."

- Frank Ocean

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"A man who has no imagination has no wings."

- Muhammad Ali

"Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day."

- George Allen, Sr.

"In baseball and in business, there are three types of people. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened."

- Tommy Lasorda

"Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it."

- C. JoyBell C

"The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit."

- Ken Doherty

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."

- John Madden

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment."

- Heywood Hale Broun

"I just knew if it could be done, it had to be done, and I did it."

- Gertrude Ederle

"Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles."

- Alex Karras

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."

- Peter T. McIntyre

"Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure."

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

- Bo Bennett

"I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities."

- John Robinson

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."

- Mary Lou Retton

"You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them."

- Satchel Paige

"I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see.""

- Dick Fosbury

"I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability."

- Bruce Jenner

"The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight."

- Arthur Ashe

"Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like muscles of the body."

- Lynn Jennings

"Even while they teach, men learn."

- Seneca the Younger

"The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose."

- Ernie Banks

"The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit."

- Ken Doherty

"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength."

- Phil Jackson

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."

- Knute Rockne

"I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles."

- Emil Zatopek

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence."

- George F. Will

"make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened."

- Tommy Lasorda

"Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin."

- Yogi Berra

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive."

- Arnold Palmer

"Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done."

- David Goggins

"If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived."

- Ben Hogan

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally."

"Rise above the challenge and shine."

"The game isn't over until you've given it your all."

"Success is earned one practise at a time."

"Play with passion and purpose."

"Your dedication defines your success."

"Winning is a habit; success is a choice."

"The strength within you is greater than any challenge ahead."

"Pain is temporary, but pride is forever."

"Leave everything on the field; no regrets."

"Believe in the power of your dreams and fight to achieve them."

"Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

"Focus on your goals, not the obstacles."

"Commit to the process and the results will follow."

"Every play is a chance to prove yourself."

"The game is won in the mind before it’s won on the field."

"Every champion was once a contender who refused to give up."

"Great things come from hard work and perseverance."

"Your greatest opponent is yourself; challenge your limits."

"If at first you don’t succeed, try doing what your coach told you to do the first time."

"It never gets easier, you just get better."

"It's not about being the best. It's about being better than you were yesterday."

"You don't have to be extraordinary to be successful; you just have to be consistent."

"Your attitude determines your direction."

"Your body can stand almost anything. It's your mind that you have to convince."

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"Success is not for the chosen few, but for the few who choose."

"To achieve something you've never had before, you must do something you've never done before."

"Your dreams are the architects of your reality."

"Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference."

"Never give up on your dreams. If you do, you'll end up with nothing."

"Your dreams don't have an expiration date. Take a deep breath and try again."

"Success is not just about winning; it's about the lessons learned through the journey."

"It's not about how many times you fall down, it's about how many times you get back up."

"The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow."

"Hard work is a two-way street. You get back exactly what you put in."

"Don't run away from challenges. Run over them."

"Great things never come from comfort zones."

"The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle."

"Your only limit is you."

- Unknown

"Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable."

"Your potential is endless. Go do what you were created to do."

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

"Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you."