Inspirational Quotes

How better to spend a Friday afternoon at work than by typing up some of my most favorite quotes ... I’ve done this thread before but rather than go looking for it I thought I’d start it all over with some of my favorite quotes. We are all getting into “championship” mode so here y’all go ... OH, and please add your own ... “If it wasn’t there in practice, guess what, it’s not going to be there in competition.” “Never, ever stop dreaming.” “Go to your destiny.” - this was the catch phrase of two of the 2000 Olympic tracksters, they said this and basically it meant run your race, do what you’ve trained to do and trust that whatever happens was what was suppose to happen - I like it. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” “Success is found in our daily routine.” “Fall down seven times, get up eight.” “When you fall off the horse, take a minute to figure out what you did wrong, then get back on.” “Success is good if it doesn’t go to the head, failure is good if it doesn’t go to the heart.” “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” “The harder you work the harder it is to surrender.” “If you work hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.” “Sports don’t build character they reveal it.” “The race is long and it the end it’s only with yourself.” “When I played on the Olympic team with Michael Jordan there was this huge gap in ability between him and the other great players on that team, but what impressed me the most was, he was always the first one on the floor and the last one to leave.” “If you are going through hell, keep going.” “It’s the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs and that little voice that whispers “can’t”, but you don’t listen, you keep pushing and soon that little voice whispers “can”, and you realize that the person you thought you were is no match for the person you really are.” “If man’s dreams weren’t meant to exceed his grasp, then what’s heaven for?” “Hard work beats out talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” “It’s only when we step outside our comfort zone that we can truly grown as human beings.” - yeah 400 IM! “When everything seems like an uphill struggle just think of the view from the top.” “For all the sad word of tongue and pen, the saddest are, ‘it might have been’.” “I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there.” Michael Jordan “Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.” Larry Bird “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” Larry Bird The rest of these are from his supreme airness, Michael Jordan “Some people want it happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” “I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don’t do things half-heatedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.” “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.” “I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot ... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.” “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” "According to the laws of aerodynamics the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly. Guess no one told the bumble bee. Makes you wonder what we could do if we didn't know we couldn't do it."