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“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”

“I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”

“Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.”

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”

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

“Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.”

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

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

“What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.”

“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”

“Never mistake activity for achievement.”

“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”

“So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.”

“Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.”

“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”

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

“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

“It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.”

“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.”

“Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.”

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

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”

“Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.”

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

“The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”

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

“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.”

“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.”

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

“A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.”

“It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.”

“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.”

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

“Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead”

“I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's true for a lot of women-sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.”