“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps
“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath
“Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.” – Ted Williams
“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” – Pat Riley
“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
“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
“If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.” – Carl Lewis
“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.” – Lou Holtz
“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.” – Ronnie Lott
“Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.” – Bobby Knight
“If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.” – Herschel Walker
“I didn’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on the field and be prepared to play a good game.” – Tom Landry
“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave–win or lose.” – Gordie Howe
“You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.” – Homer Rice
“Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.” – Lou Brock
“To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” – Picabo Street
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
“You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.” – J. Askenberg
“I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind.” – Peyton Manning
“During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.” – Mickey Mantle
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
“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. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.” – Eddie Reese
“You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.” – Chris Evert
“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Pele
“The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.” – John Madden
“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” – Steve Young
“How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.” – Lou Holtz
To eliminate the ego you must move beyond your thinking mind to observe how you feel and how your emotions are affecting your physiology.
“If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail.” – Mark Spitz
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