I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.
I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.
I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
The principle is competing against yourself.
In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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