Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
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 really believe 100 percent.
Rest if you must, but never quit.
Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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