What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

– Joe Paterno

Players win games, teams win championships.

- Bill Taylor

Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team… Winning does not happen in straight lines.

- Clive Woodward, after leading England to Rugby World Cup victory

The harder I practice, the luckier I get.

-Gary Player

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

- Plato

A gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.

– Cool Runnings

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

- Haywood Hale Broun

The only one who can beat me is me.

- Michael Johnson

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

- Michael Jordan

They don’t give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.

- Michael Johnson

Doctors and scientists said that 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.

- Roger Bannister (After becoming the first person to break the four-minute mile, 1952)

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

- Billie Jean King

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

-William A. Ward

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

-Vince Lombardi

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

-Earvin “Magic” Johnson