Most men stop when they begin to tire.
Good men go until they think they are going to collapse.
But the very best know the mind tires before the body and push themselves further and further, beyond all limits.
Only when their limits are shattered can the attainable be reached.
- Mark Mysnyk

There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than in the ring. There is no second place. Either you win or you lose. When they call you a champion, it's because you don't lose. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body.
- Rocky Marciano,

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Unknown

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
- Billie Jean King

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi

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

You can't make a great play unless you do it first in practice.
- Chuck Noll

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

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Lou Holtz

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
- Dan Gable

The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.
- Todd Blackledge

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
- Herschel Walker

Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
- William A. Ward

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.
- Charles Haley

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese proverb