You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

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

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

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

There are no gains without pains.

If at first you don’t succeed, you are running about average.

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.

They can because they think they can.

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

Never say die.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I’m not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Mind is everything: muscle–pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.

If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.

I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.