Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

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"True champions aren’t always the ones that win, but those with the most guts."

- Mia Hamm

Courage

"You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it’s worth it if you score a spectacular goal."

- Mia Hamm

Courage

"If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they’ve won."

- Mia Hamm

Courage

"True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts."

- Mia Hamm

Courage

"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

Inspiration

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"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

Growth

"How marvelous is the generation with which you deal. We have never had a generation its equal in all of the history of the Church. They are better educated. They are more familiar with the scriptures. I believe they pray with a greater measure of faith, have a greater desire to do the will of the Lord, are more active in the Church, go into the world as better prepared missionaries, and live to become better parents."

- President Gordon B. Hinckley

Growth

"Allow yourself the opportunity to get uncomfortable."

- Alex Toussaint

Growth

"All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone."

- Tony Robbins

Growth

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

- Mary Tyler Moore

Growth