To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.
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.
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too
Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
I opened-up a yogurt, underneath the lid it said, "Please try again. " because they were having a contest that I was unaware of. I thought maybe I opened the yogurt wrong. . . . Or maybe Yoplait was trying to inspire me. . . "Come on Mitchell, don't give up!" An inspirational message from your friends at Yoplait, fruit on the bottom, hope on top.
If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.