Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.
— Unknown Author
Delicious Great Sport quotations
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game.
Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters.
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you.
You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all.
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports.
It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.
The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.
Greatness is a lot of small things done well.
Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele.
I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential.
It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.
Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.
Great moments are born from great opportunities.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.
The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.
The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.
He can run, but he can't hide.
The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.