Quotes October 19, 2023

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard
 
 
 
 
I’ve observed that if individuals who prevail in a high competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure — and their ability to overcome it.
Bill Walsh, college and NFL football coach
 
 
 
 
The only way to prove you are a good sport is to lose.
Ernie Banks, MLB player
 
 
 
 
The game of basketball is one of the greatest teachers of life there is. It teaches you first and foremost to believe in yourself. You must develop physical and mental toughness in order to succeed because there’s going to be many disappointments and setbacks along the way.
Tom Crean, college basketball coach
 
 
 
 
Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.
Matt Biondi, Olympic swimmer
 
 
 
 
Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat … is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize.
Bruce Lee, martial artist and actor
 
 
 
 
Everybody thinks a champion has to always be the winner, come out on top. But I think everybody inside is a champion themselves depending on how you handle your failures and your successes.
Simone Biles, Olympic gymnast
 
 
 
 
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Pat Riley, basketball coach
 
 
 
 
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden, college basketball coach
 
 
 
 
Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.
Doug Williams, NFL quarterback and college football coach
 
 
 
 
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.
Bear Bryant, college football player and coach
 
 
 
 
I’ve done it before. It won’t be the last time. You’re going to go years where you just don’t win. That’s OK, as long as you keep trying to improve.
Tiger Woods, golfer
 
 
 
 
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi, NFL coach and executive
 
 
 
 
If you have a chance and don’t make the most of it, you are wasting your time on this earth. It is not what you do in baseball or sports, but how hard you try. Win or lose, I try my best.
Roberto Clemente, MLB player