"26 MOTIVATIONAL & POSITIVE QUOTES"




"Great teams win championships, not great players."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Colby P., Age 16 --- PE, Canada
This is simply saying that the star players don't win the championships, it's the good teams that do. That was shown in the 2003 Stanley Cup finals with New Jersey having really not superstars.



"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory."
Cicero



"Dream your dream. Follow your heart. Imagine. Listen to the wind. Drink sunsets. Be free. Let the wonder never cease. Believe. Wish on EVERY star. Create adventure. Be Kind."
Debbie Coulter --- Submitted by Jacquie Currie --- Victoria, Australia
For someone who's been to hell and back, this lady knows what she's talking about. Debbie is my brother's Art teacher, a lover of Angels and everything that goes along with it. In this little paragraph I think she sums up everything that is needed to enjoy life, and believe in yourself. Love you Deb... and your angels.



"You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance."
Lee J. Iacocca



"There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree."
Theodore Roosevelt



"Cars are like people......each has parts dependant on one another......each has parts that can work aside from one another......It is the teamwork that gives energy and life."
Copyright © 2003 Shawn Fleming



"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. Its OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing."
H. Stanley Judd






"Inches make a champion."
Vince Lombardi



"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired --- you quit when the gorilla is tired."
Robert Strauss --- Submitted by S. Shankle --- Arkansas
You can never give up on a goal. To do so, is conceding to defeat. You can alter your course or tackle it head on...but never give up.



"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar



"When there's unity, there's victory!"
Copyright © 2003 Mohd Dzuleqhmal



"Today I will do what you won't, so tomorrow I can do what you can't."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Julia Hunt --- Missouri



"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
Napoleon Hill



"The word "IMPOSSIBLE" has got a great message to all of us that is "I" "M" "POSSIBLE". So we should not blame Mr. Impossible for our failures that just because he came in our way and we landed in a failures land. Instead he has got a great message to deliver to us. Just think it other way."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Bhawandeep Singh --- Punjab/Rajpura, India



"I found that if I could find the energy then I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it, I can do it, and I can do it."
Jon Erickson



"The foundation of excellence lies in self control."
H.L. Baugher



"It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them."
Lou Holtz



"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture. Do not build obstacles in your imagination. Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can."
Norman Vincent Peale



"I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win."
Arnold Palmer



"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
Napoleon Hill



" Follow your dream; take one step at a time and, despite the challenges, continue to climb."
Author Unknown



"I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best."
Akeem Olajuwon



"Traveling through exterior circumstances is always challenging. How you choose to handle them determines whether you arrive a survivor, or a champion."
Copyright © 2003 Caroline Walker
Are you just a survivor, or are you a champion? Which destination will you choose?



"The time, the effort, the pain, the passion, the strength, and the courage; you sacrificed it all for the love of the game. Happiness, spirit, dreams, success, respect, and enthusiasm; you gained it all from the love of the game."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by C.M., Age 14 --- Wisconsin
Work your hardest and it will pay off in the end, trust me.



"Success is not forever, and failure is never final."
Don Shula



"Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald