• I shall find a way or make one (Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam) -Hannibal

  • Only through toughness can you discover your real limits -Dr. Jim Loehr


  • Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift -Chris Evert


  • Our biggest obstacles are between our ears, what we tell ourselves -Veikka Gustafson

  • Your mindset can either be your greatest opponent or your greatest motivator -Frank Medrano

  • You are, at this moment, standing in your own "acres of diamonds" -Earl Nightingale

  • He conquers who endures -Perius

  • We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves -Orison Swett Marden

  • Little by little, one travels far -JRR Tolkien

  • To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift -Steve Prefontaine

  • Every thought we think is creating our future -Louise Hay

  • The idea that talent defines the limits of greatness simply doesn't hold up -James E. Loehr

  • Great competitors are great actors -James E. Loehr

  • If you can dream it, you can do it -Walt Disney

  • A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do -Walter Gagehot

  • You don't start climbing a mountain to get to the middle. Why be content with being average? -James Hart

  • The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become -Charles Dubois

  • There is no success without hardship -Sophocles

  • Things may come to those that wait, but only the things left by those that hustle -Abraham Lincoln

  • One extends one's limits only by exceeding them -M. Scott Peck

  • Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda

  • Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men -JFK

  • It isn't sufficient just to want. You've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want -FDR

  • The will must be stronger than the skill -Muhammad Ali

  • Success depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character -Arnold Palmer

  • Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success -Coby Bryant

  • The Happiness in your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts -Marcus Aurelius

  • You have the power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength -Marcus Aurelius

  • If you're not physically and mentally prepared for what life is going to throw at you, then you're just going to crumble, and then, you're no good to nobody -David Goggins

  • To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach -Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • Today, you have 100% of your life left -Tom Landry

  • I am Invincible, as long as I'm alive -John Mayer

  • Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible -Frank L. Gaines

  • Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period -Lou Holtz

  • Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement -Matt Biondi

  • Never limit yourself by believing you're not talented enough or smart enough, or that you haven't been given the genetic gifts to achieve great heights. Your future is determined far more by what you do than by what you are genetically -Dr. Jim Loehr

  • For sportsmen and women who want to be champions, the mind can be just as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body -Gary Neville

  • If you think you are done, you always have at least 40-percent more -Lauren Crandall

  • There is a way to play this game physically, but it's the mental part that's going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze -Lisa Fernandez

  • I think an athlete's mental state is what separates the goods from the greats! -Natasha Watley

  • The greatest asset is a strong mind -P.V. Sindhu

  • All the physical comes from the mental -Clara Hughes

  • Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing -Muhammad Ali

  • Competitive sports are played mainly on a five-and-a-half inch court, the space between your ears -Bobby Jones

  • If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat -Hershall Walker

  • Your mind is what makes everything else work -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  • I don't know how it is for you earthlings, but where I'm from, strength is mental -Shaquille O'Neal

  • I wasn't real quick and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals -Larry Bird

  • I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck -Sheryl Swoops

  • He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war -Spartan Warrior Creed

  • Carpe Diem! Seize the Day!

  • Vincit qui Se Vincit - He conquers who conquers himself

  • Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself -Pat Summitt

  • Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis -Nick Saban

  • There's no substitute for guts -Bear Bryant

  • To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer -Dabo Swinney

  • Russell Wilson has got a tremendous competitive mindset and it stems from the confidence that he feels based on the preparation that he puts in -Pete Carroll

  • Every setback has a major comeback -Russell Wilson

  • Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling -Bill Belichick

  • If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible -Apolo Ohno

  • You've got to believe in yourself first. Take risks and don't be afraid to fail -Mary Lous Retton

  • If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk -Bill Rodgers

  • The only tactics I admire are do-or-die -Herb Elliott

  • Running is 80 percent mental -Joan Benoit

  • It's all about where your mind is at -Kelly Slater

  • The nine inches right here (points at head); set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world -Sebastian Coe

  • Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer -Percy Cerutty

  • I think your mind really controls everything -Michael Phelps

  • Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice -Steph Curry

  • My body is capable of so much more and I want to keep tapping into that inner strength -Frank Modrano

  • I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position -Serena Williams

  • You don't just find the willpower you need. You create it -Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson

  • A true champion will fight through anything -Floyd Mayweather

  • The vast majority of us are slaves to our minds. Most don't even make the first effort when it comes to mastering their thought process because it's a never-ending chore and impossible to get right every time -David Goggins

  • The mind is the most powerful thing in the world. The mind has capabilities that are so unknown, and being able to tap into that is on the other side of suffering -David Goggins

  • I'm chasing perfection -Kobe Bryant

  • Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's were doubt comes in -Conor McGregor

  • Excellence is not a skill. Excellence is an attitude -Conor McGregor

  • I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart -Ray Lewis

  • We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible -Vince Lombardi

  • If you mentally believe it will happen, your body is going to find a way to make it physically happen -Greg Plitt

  • Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym -Greg Plitt

  • The mind is everything -Kai Greene

  • Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality -Bruce Lee

  • As you think, so you shall become -Bruce Lee

  • If you fail to prepare, you've prepared to fail -Mark Spitz

  • Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us -Wilma Rudolph

  • To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them -Picaboo Street

  • What seems hard now will one day be your warm-up -Unknown

  • We can push ourselves further. We always have more -Simone Biles

  • It's about doing it in a way that it can't be done any better. That is the goal every day -Geno Auriemma

  • I think the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  • My secret? See it and stay focused on it -Shaquille O'Neal

  • The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical -Julius Erving

  • Heart is what makes the difference -Jerry Sloan

  • I think everyone should take the attitude that we're working to be a champion, that we want to be a champion in everything that we do. Every choice, every decision, everything that we do every day, we want to be a champion -Nick Saban

  • Becoming a champion is not an easy process...it is done by focusing on what it takes to get there and not on getting there -Nick Saban

  • There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to -Bear Bryant

  • If you want to win forever, you've got to always compete! -Pete Carroll

  • I always think something good is about to happen -Pete Carroll

  • Sometimes all you need is just somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could -Drew Brees

  • Separation comes from preparation -Russell Wilson

  • Never lift. Never stop believing -Sebastian Vettel

  • I'm a big fan of doing what you are bad at. A lot -Shaun White

  • I don't call them sacrifices, I call them exchanges -Shawn Johnson

  • Heart if required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart -Mary Lou Retton

  • It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great -Kerri Strug

  • A runner must run with dreams in his heart -Emil Zatopek

  • Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. Then they are not barriers anymore -Lasse Viren

  • My mum and I joke that I had a middle school teacher who said I'd never be successful -Michael Phelps

  • I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it -Michael Phelps

  • Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is imagination -Michael Phelps

  • The one thing that's common to all successful people. They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do -Michael Phelps

  • My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength -Michael Jordan

  • The minute you get away from fundamentals - Whether it's proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation - the bottom can fall out of your game -Michael Jordan

  • I've never lost a game, I just ran out of time -Michael Jordan

  • Nothing come to a sleeper but a dream - Serena Williams

  • Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can -Serena Williams

  • You have to believe in yourself when no one else does -Serena Williams

  • Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard -Serena Williams

  • I want to practice to the point where its almost uncomfortable how fast you shoot, so that in the game things kind of slow down -Steph Curry

  • We have to have the mentality that we have to work for everything we're going to get -Steph Curry

  • If you take time to realize what your dream is and what you really want in life - no matter what it is, whether it's sports or in other fields - you have to realize that there is always work to do, and you want to be the hardest working person in whatever you do, and you put yourself in a position to be successful. And you have to have passion about what you do -Steph Curry

  • I've never left the field saying 'I could've done more to get ready', and that gives me peace of mind -Peyton Manning

  • Allow your passion to be stronger than your pain. Don't stop. -Frank Medrano

  • A goal without a plan is just a wish. Go out there and make things happen -Frank Medrano

  • Don't quit on yourself. The one's who make it are the one's who keep going no matter how hard it gets -Frank Medrano

  • Your attitude makes a big difference -Frank Medrano

  • You will never succeed if you do not believe what you want. Visualize your goal. Make an effort to go for it and always stay confident that it can be yours -Frank Medrano

  • Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose -Frank Medrano

  • Repeat after me: I WILL fight for it. I will not give up. I will reach my goal and absolutely nothing will stop me -Frank Medrano

  • Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come -Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson

  • We do today what they won't, so tomorrow we can accomplish what they can't -Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson

  • I don't fold under pressure. Great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me -Floyd Mayweather

  • Life is one big tug of war between mediocrity and trying to find your best self -David Goggins

  • Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose. Don't focus on what you think you deserve - take aim on what you are willing to earn! -David Goggins

  • You want to be uncommon amongst uncommon people. Period -David Goggins

  • I understand the temptation to sell short, but I also know that impulse is driven by your minds desire for comfort, and it's not telling you the truth -David Goggins

  • A warrior is a guy that goes 'I'm here again today, I'll be here again tomorrow and the next day'. It's a person who puts no limits on what's possible -David Goggins

  • This life is all a f***ing mind game. Realize that. Own it! -David Goggins

  • At the end of the day, you've gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable? -Conor McGregor

  • I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it's time to sleep -Conor McGregor

  • I stay ready so I don't have to get ready -Conor McGregor

  • My success isn't a result of arrogance. It's a result of belief -Conor McGregor

  • The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you become uncomfortable -Conor McGregor

  • It takes sacrifice as well as talent -Lionel Messi

  • I don't feel pain. I ain't got time for that. I let other people feel pain for me -Brock Lesnar

  • Every action has a purpose. When every action has a purpose, every action has a result -Greg Plitt

  • In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins -Greg Plitt

  • You are what you do repeatedly. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit -Greg Plitt

  • The power of my mind allowed me to achieve what I imagined -Kai Greene

  • I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability -Bruce Jenner

  • The possession of anything begins in the mind -Bruce Lee

  • The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits -Bruce Lee

  • Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can -Bruce Lee

  • The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus -Bruce Lee

  • There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them -Bruce Lee

  • What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become -Bruce Lee

  • Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working -Will Smith

  • Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity -Will Smith

  • The reality is, you get ZERO points for intentions -Terry Crews

  • If you don't find the time, if you don't do the work, you won't get the results -Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort -Jesse Owens

  • It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer -Albert Einstein

  • A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it -Ray Davis

  • Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all -Dale Carnegie

  • Failure is so important. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success -J.K. Rowling

  • A champion is simply someone who did not give up when they wanted to -Tom Landry

  • Losing doesn't make me want to quit, it makes me want to fight that much harder -Bear Bryant

  • Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it -Lou Holtz

  • Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't -Jerry Rice

  • Today you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not going to stay the same. Which will it be? -Joe Paterno

  • Don't dream of winning, train for it -Mo Farrah

  • The more difficult the victory the greater the happiness in winning -Pele

  • I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end -Larry Bird

  • You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good -Jerry West

  • Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds -Larry Bird

  • The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done -Arnold Palmer

  • Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up -Rocky Balboa

  • It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great -Unknown

  • What I love about the game is that the game doesn't know who is supposed to win -Sue Enquist

  • I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all -Simone Biles

  • You make your own luck. You make it in training -Simone Biles

  • Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible -Frank L. Gaines

  • Never underestimate the heart of a champion -Doc Rivers

  • If you don't feel you have something to prove every day, you'll never improve -Billy Donovan

  • Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts -David Robinson

  • I'm going to be a success at whatever I choose because of my preparation. By the time the game starts, the outcome has been decided. I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared -David Robinson

  • You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough -Bill Russell

  • Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence -Jay Bilas

  • Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy, it's human nature -Bobby Knight

  • With the absence of pressure it's hard to do great things -Geno Auriemma

  • Tough times don't last, but tough people do -Alonzo Mourning

  • Attitude is altitude -Julius Erving

  • Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing -Wilt Chamberlain

  • Great effort springs naturally from great attitude -Pat Riley

  • When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows -Phil Jackson

  • Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen -Pat Summitt

  • There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment -Nick Saban

  • What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment -Nick Saban

  • I don't think it's about who you play, I think it's about who you are -Nick Saban

  • Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things -Bear Bryant

  • Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen -Pete Carroll

  • That's the interesting thing about the philosophy - to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small -Pete Carroll

  • I'm talking about: are we competing today, every minute, in everything we do in practice? Are we letting loose and daring to be great here and now? And can we sustain that? And repeat it. Trophies are great, but we're trying to win forever -Pete Carroll

  • The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you'll be when it counts -Bill Parcells

  • Think about winning the day...if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you -Drew Brees

  • I thought about all the people that told me I couldn't do it and told me I couldn't get there -Russell Wilson

  • Winner, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live -Joe Montana

  • I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up -Kurt Warner

  • One play at a time -Patrick Mahomes

  • I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance -Michael Schumacher

  • I like added pressure. It makes me work harder -Mary Lou Retton

  • I like to stay in the moment -Shaun White

  • The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us -Kerri Strug

  • The hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play -Kerri Walsh

  • The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top -Herb Elliott

  • Don't let the fear decide your future -Shalane Flanagan

  • The problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude about the problem -Jack Sparrow

  • It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super-duper successful people, because it's guys I know who are maybe ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard -Rico Love

  • Everything begins from the mind, including change. So, if you want to alter your life, you have to start with your mindset -Alexi Weaver

  • If you're ready to take your game to the next level, you gotta change that mindset -Eric Thomas

  • Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude -Roy T. Bennett

  • I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in -Roger Clemens

  • Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it -Steve Maraboli

  • Eliminate the mindset of CAN'T! Because you can do anything! -Tony Horton

  • Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion -Manu Bennett

  • I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great -Russell Wilson

  • As human beings it is our general belief that successful people are special and that they are born destined for greatness. It is just too difficult to comprehend that the main things that separates those people from us is not anything particularly special; it is simply their mindset and habits -P.G. Manifold

  • You're in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way -Carol Dweck

  • Success is a mindset. Let's learn how to create a positive one -Beau Norton

  • A positive, or winning, mindset can often mean the difference between success or failure in any endeavor -Anthony T. Galie

  • It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win -Muhammad Ali

  • I've never known a person who was successful that didn't at first establish a mindset of success. You can't be that which you can't believe -Byron Pulsifer

  • The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives -Carol S. Dweck

  • The mind works most effectively when you're telling it what to do rather than what not to do -Cary Mack

  • To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail -Giorgio Armani

  • Make history or be a part of it -Phil Knight

  • The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die -Steve Prefontaine

  • Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it -Steve Prefontaine

  • Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great -Steve Prefontaine

  • Mindsets are just beliefs. They're powerful beliefs, but they're just something in our mind, and you can change your mind -Carol S. Dwelk

  • Your mindset is like the frequency of a radio. Meaning, how you have tuned your mind to operate is very critical to your success in life -Oscar Bimpong

  • A winning mindset can transform an underdog into a champion, conqueror and achiever. You're a mindset away from winning your battles! -Assegid Habtewold

  • To say your mindset is critical to your success is a gross understatement - it is the underpinning! -Susan C. Young

  • Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life's experience -Susan C. Young

  • Shape your mindsets or your mindsets will shape you -Susan C. Young

  • You have to be odd to be number one -Dr. Seuss

  • The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you -Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows -Epictetus

  • You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety -Abraham Maslow

  • Action is the foundational key to all success -Pablo Picasso

  • If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax -Abraham Lincoln


  • I believed I could play at this level again. I just didn't see why I couldn't -Phil Mickelson

  • Get his Mind SET and the rest will come -Diana Russini (on Carson Wentz)

  • I've failed many times in my life and because of this I've learned a lot. Instead of feeling defeated countless times, I've used it as fuel to drive me to work harder. So today, join me in accepting our failures. Let's use them to motivate us to work even harder -Phil Mickelson

  • Becoming a champion is not an easy process...it is done by focusing on what it take to get there (the process) and no on getting there (the outcome) -Nick Saban

  • Discipline equals freedom -Jacko Willink

  • Those who succeed don't do so because they somehow evaded trials and challenges. They succeed because they developed a skill set that allowed them to overcome the challenges and trials they faced -Brian Cain

  • You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get -Michael Phelps

  • Prepare like everyone is better than you, compete like no one is -Diljeet Taylor

  • What is Tom Brady's favorite Super Bowl ring? The next one!

  • You don't have to be the biggest, fastest, strongest player out there. You can't control your height. You can't control your athleticism compared to your competitors. But you can control your effort. You can control your attitude. You can control your work ethic -Patrick Mahomes

  • Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength -Phill Jackson

  • Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do -Shaquille O'Neal

  • The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage -Franz Stampfl

  • I discovered that physical hardships could be overcome if there was a burning desire from the mind to produce complete mental control -Franz Stampfl

  • If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied -Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

  • I don't think it's about who you play, I think it's about who you are -Nick Saban

  • Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things -Bear Bryant

  • Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen -Pete Carroll

  • That's the interesting thing about the philosophy - to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small -Pete Carroll

  • I'm talking about: are we competing today, every minute, in everything we do in practice? Are we letting loose and daring to be great here and now? And can we sustain that? And repeat it. Trophies are great, but we're trying to win forever -Pete Carroll

  • The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you'll be when it counts -Bill Parcells

  • Think about winning the day...if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you -Drew Brees

  • I thought about all the people that told me I couldn't do it and told me I couldn't get there -Russell Wilson

  • Winner, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live -Joe Montana

  • I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up -Kurt Warner

  • One play at a time -Patrick Mahomes

  • I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance -Michael Schumacher

  • I like added pressure. It makes me work harder -Mary Lou Retton

  • I like to stay in the moment -Shaun White

  • The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us -Kerri Strug

  • The hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play -Kerri Walsh

  • The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top -Herb Elliott

  • Don't let the fear decide your future -Shalane Flanagan

  • The problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude about the problem -Jack Sparrow

  • It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super-duper successful people, because it's guys I know who are maybe ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard -Rico Love

  • Everything begins from the mind, including change. So, if you want to alter your life, you have to start with your mindset -Alexi Weaver

  • If you're ready to take your game to the next level, you gotta change that mindset -Eric Thomas

  • Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude -Roy T. Bennett

  • I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in -Roger Clemens

  • A year from now you may wish you had started today -Karen Lamb

  • All things are difficult before they are easy -Thomas Fuller

  • In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity -Albert Einstein

  • The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it -J.M. Barrie

  • It always seems impossible until it's done -Nelson Mandela

  • Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible -Winston Churchill

  • Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them -John C. Maxwell

  • Mind is never a problem. Mindset is -Narendra Modi

  • It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves -Sir Edmond Hillary

  • Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat -F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength -Theodore Roosevelt

  • Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind -William James

  • Everything you want is on the other side of hard -Monty Williams

  • An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless -Rachael Taylor

  • There is one grand lie, that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe -Wayne Dyer

  • Do just once what others say you cannot do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again -James Cook

  • You brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius -Michael J. Gelb

  • The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless -Dean Karnazes

  • If you must doubt something, doubt your limits -Price Pritchett

  • Life has no limitations, except the ones you make -Les Brown

  • Human potential is the only limitless resources we have in this world -Carly Fiorina

  • Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future -Gordon B. Hinckley

  • Breath in the sweet air of limitless possibility, and make life as rich as you know it can be -Ralph Marston

  • Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste, it's something that truly exists in all of us -Will Smith

  • Life is lived on the edge -Will Smith

  • Achievement is talent plus preparation -Malcolm Gladwell

  • Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good -Malcolm Gladwell

  • Life doesn't put a limit on how much you can learn, you do -Matshona Dhliwayo

  • Life is a journey with almost limitless possibilities -Ken Poirot

  • Reality can be said to be limitless but is restricted by what is believed -Steven Redhead

  • The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending -Jim Rohn

  • Life has no limitations, except the ones you make -Les Brown

  • I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past -Stephen Covey

  • You cannot push yourself to the limit, if you have none -Matshona Dhliwayo

  • I'm not interested in your limiting believes, I'm interested in what makes you limitless -Brendon Burchard

  • The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the "buts" you use today -Les Brown

  • If you embrace that the things that you can do are limitless, you can put your ding in the universe. You can change the world -Tim Cook

  • If you consider life limitless, just think of the things you may achieve -Michael Jordan

  • Where are we going fellas? To the top, Johnny! Where's that fellas? To the toppermost of the poppermost! Right! -The Beatles (what John Lennon would ask the band before they made it to keep them focused, cheered up and believing)

  • I am still learning -Michelangelo

  • Life is full of obstacle illusions -Grant Frazier

  • The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective -Al Neuharth

  • The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions -Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • I will prepare and someday my chance will come -Abraham Lincoln

  • Pressure is an illusion -Sydney McLaughlin

  • Never put a ceiling on what you can accomplish -Robert Saleh

  • The mind is definitely stronger than the body -Kelly Slater


  • Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body -Lynn Jennings


  • The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness -Mia Hamm


  • Mental Toughness is to physical as four is to one -Bobby Knight


  • Mental Toughness is essential to success -Vince Lombardi


  • Mental strength is what separates champions from near champions -Rafael

  • Start by training the most effective weapon you have: your mind. Your mind controls your body -Dave Phillips


  • The possession of anything begins in the mind -Bruce Lee


  • The mental game is the entire game. The physical is only an extension of what you’re capable of doing mentally -Phil Davis


  • You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life -John Addison


  • We are what we repeatedly do -Aristotle


  • Concentration and Mental Toughness are the margins of victory -Bill Russell


  • Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher -Jim Afrenow


  • Mind is everything: muscle, (just) pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. -Paavo Nurmi

  • Toughness has nothing to do with size, physical strength, or athleticism. Toughness is a SKILL that can be developed & improved -Jay Bilas


  • It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ -Sir Roger Bannister


  • With the proper motivation..your mind can overcome any sort of adversity -Franz Stampfl

  • Under pressure you can perform fifteen percent better or worse -Scott Hamilton

  • If Tom Brady didn't always think he could get better, he wouldn't be Tom Brady -Dan Graziano

  • Today I gave all I had, what I've kept is lost forever

  • That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence -Brannon Braga "Q" (in All Good Things)


  • Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do, and at some point you will -Venus Williams

  • Attitude is a decision, and it is also a learned behavior, requiring discipline and energy to sustain -Jim Afrenow

  • Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it -George Halas

  • What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all -Willie Mays

  • Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears -Laird Hamilton

  • I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right ear -Ben Crenshaw

  • I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally. Physically -Misty May-Treanor

  • The game is 90% mental. The other half is physical -Yogi Berra

  • Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory -Bill Russell

  • Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it -Steve Maraboli

  • You are today where your thoughts have brought you; You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you -James Allen

  • Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them; a desire, a dream, a vision -Muhammad Ali

  • Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen -Michael Jordan

  • The best motivation always comes from within -Michael Jordan

  • They can because they think they can -Virgil

  • We tend to get what we expect -Norman Vincent Peale

  • Action conquers fear -Peter Nivio Zarlenga

  • Every winner has scars -Herbert N. Casson

  • The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter -Derek Clayton

  • A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts -Steve Prefontaine

  • The human body can do so much. Then the heart and the spirit must take over -Sohn Kee-chung

  • [Scientific Testing] can't determine how the mind will tolerate pain in a race. Sometimes I say, 'Today I can die' -Gelindo Bordin

  • It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys -Emil Zatopek

  • In the last 50 yards, my body had long since exhausted its energy but it went on running just the same -Roger Bannister

  • Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out -John Wooden

  • I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful'. I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that -Michael Phelps

  • It's mindset, not miles, that separates those who do from those who dream -John Bingham

  • I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus -Michael Jordan

  • A champion is someone who gets up when he can't -Jack Dempsey

  • Success is not an accident, success is a choice -Steph Curry

  • It's hard to beat a person that never gives up -Babe Ruth

  • Everything negative - pressure, challenges - are all an opportunity for me to rise -Kobe Bryant

  • Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion -Michael Jordan

  • You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be -Lou Holtz

  • Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder and give more than anyone else -Vince Lombardi

  • Don't sell yourself short. You are more capable than you think. Never stop dreaming & striving -Steph Curry

  • If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all -Michelangelo

  • You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours -Herb Brooks

  • Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive -Steph Curry

  • In life, there is not such thing as impossible; it's always possible -Venus Williams

  • I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is -Lynn Jennings

  • The most important conversation is the one you have with yourself -David Goggins

  • Life is NOT some future event -Rick Roll

  • Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control -Richard Kline

  • Before you can achieve, you have to believe in yourself -Jennie Finch

  • You have to expect things of yourself, before you can do them -Michael Jordan

  • There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do -Derek Jeter

  • If the sun comes up, I have a chance -Venus Williams

  • The mental capacity to be the best...you've got to be mentally strong -Eddie Hall

  • If you can control your mind, you can control your #@*#! muscles -CT Fletcher

  • Some go big. I went enormous. Some set goals. I set milestones! Some climb hills, I climbed mountain! Some want growth, I COMMAND growth -CT Fletcher

  • You have to have a dream so big that you can get up in the morning -Michael Phelps

  • Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it? -Serena Williams

  • You've got to stay patient, stay in the moment, keep grinding...you never know what can happen -Tiger Woods

  • Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you are doing -Peyton Manning

  • The real challenge is how you think and act in the tough times -Frank Medrano

  • Success at anything will always come down to this: focus and effort. And we can control both -Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson

  • I don't feel that no fighter has the mental or physical agility to match Floyd Mayweather -Floyd Mayweather

  • Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence -David Goggins

  • If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail -Kobe Bryant

  • You can have anything you want if you work hard enough for it -Branch Warren

  • There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone. If you put in the time you will reach the top, and that's that. I am not talented, I am obsessed -Conor McGregor

  • I learned it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not -Kaka

  • Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there, it's an accumulation of things -Brock Lesnar

  • That's not normal, because we don't want to be normal. Normal is what weak people call living. I call it death -Greg Plitt

  • You have to think before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible -Kai Greene

  • Don't make training easy. Make it harder so you will get better -Manny Pacquiao

  • Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier -Bruce Lee

  • The first step is you have to say that you can -Will Smith

  • The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you believe 100 percent -Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • If you can see it in your mind, you can hold it in your hand -Steve Harvey

  • Dreams are free. Goals have a cost -Usain Bolt

  • The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why -Mark Twain

  • Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. -Arthur Ashe