090316 quotes

Only winners are truly alive.

Winning is living.

Every time you win, you're reborn.

When you lose, you die a little.

- Coach George Allen

I am a big believer in the 'mirror test'.

All that matters is if you can look in the mirror

And honestly tell the person you see there,

That you've done your best.

- Coach John McKay

Show class, have pride, and display character.

If you do, winning takes care of itself.

- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant 

090216 quotes

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream,

So you shall become. Your vision is the

Promise of what you shall one day be;

Your ideal is the prophecy of what you

Shall at last unveil.

- James Allen

Finally I came to Coach Bryant's office.

(He) put his hand on my shoulder and said,

Bebes, I'm going to give you three pieces of advice …

Don't look back. Don't lose your guts. And go out on that

Field and make something happen.

- Coach Gene Stallings

We don’t want our quarterback to feel he has

To win the game.  You don’t him to feel like you

Have to force things to win the game.  

If you execute with the players around you and

Do your job, and make good choices, we’re going

To have a chance to be successful.

- Coach Nick Saban

090116 quotes

Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the

Basis of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong

The richest persons are those who give most

In service to others.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history.

To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me.

There’s no better time to try this than now.

- Michael Phelps

083116 quotes

Believe that life is worth living and your

Belief will help create the fact.

- William James

Good intentions are useless until they are

Expressed in appropriate action.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

But Charlie, don’t forget what happened to

The man who suddenly got everything he

Always wanted … He lived happily ever after.

- Gene Wilder 

083016 quotes

Pain is only temporary but victory is forever.

- Anonymous

Play with heart and use that heart to love the

Team you play for!

- Anonymous

You don’t take donkeys to the Kentucky Derby.  

You better get you some race horses.

- Coach Pat Summit’s dad after her first loss

082916 quotes

One person with passion is better than forty

People merely interested.

- E. M. Forster

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
- Cato

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is

Dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison

082716 quotes

You are either honest or dishonest.

There can be no compromise between the two.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness

Will run after you.

- Freeman Clarke

In all human affairs there are efforts and there

Are results, and the strength of the effort is

The measure of the result.

- James Allen

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082616 quotes

You find when you play a good opponent early,

“Where are we?”

- Coach Nick Saban

You can do anything as long as you have the passion,

The drive, the focus, and the support.

- Sabrina Bryan

For true success ask yourself these four questions …

Why?

Why not?

Why not me?

Why not now?

- James Allen

082516 quotes

You can’t fake passion.

- Barbara Corcoran

Ingratitude is a painter of hard lines on the face.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins

If you think it’s hard to meet new people,

Try picking up the wrong golf ball.

- Jack Lemmon

082416 quotes

First say to yourself what you would be;

And then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus

The amount of good luck coming your way

Depends on your willingness to act.

- Barbara Sher

If you feel like there’s something out there

That you’re supposed to be doing,

If you have a passion for it,

Stop wishing and just do it.

- Wanda Sykes

082316 quotes

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances,

but are unwilling to improve themselves;

They therefore remain bound.

- James Allen

You’ve got to forget about the past and focus on

What’s happening in the future.

- Coach Nick Saban

If you don’t love what you do, you won’t do it with

Much conviction or passion.

- Mia Hamm

082216 quotes

Done is better than perfect.

- Laura Vanderkam

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous

Joys of life comes from being happy over the

Good fortune of others.

- Archibald Rutledge

You’ve got to think about big things while you’re

Doing small things, so that all the small things go

In the right direction.

- Alvin Toffler 

081316 quotes

Abundance is not something we acquire.

It is something we tune into.

- Wayne Dyer

Blessed are those who can give without

Remembering and take without forgetting.

- Bernard Meltzer

I am not bound to win; I am bound to be true.

I am not bound to succeed,

But I am bound to live up to the light I have.

- Abraham Lincoln

081116 quotes

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do.

And I want to change the world of swimming.

- Michael Phelps

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains,

And we never even know we have the key.

“Already Gone”

- Jack Tempchin, Robert Arnold Strandlund

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Go where you are celebrated … not tolerated.

If they can't see the real value of you,

It’s time for a new start.

- Anonymous

081016 quotes

If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

- Mark Spitz

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right

Thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring

About right results.

- James Allen

This is not race I'm talking about.

Every time I mention this they say this

Has racial overtones...

When does it come to have racial overtones

In this country to stand for law and order?

- George C. Wallace

080916 quotes

In this world it is not what we take up,
but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Sacrifice everything,

And give up nothing.

Never give up, for that

Is just the place and time

That the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

The will to win is having discipline

With three or four minutes to go.

- Coach John Calipari 

080816 quotes

Some people get the breaks;

Some people make their own.

- Anonymous

Behind every brilliant performance there

Were countless hours of practice and preparation.

- Eric Buttterworth

When someone tells you that you can't do something,

Perhaps you should consider that they are only telling

You what they can't do.

- Sheldon Cahoon 

080716 quotes

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable,

And I know my surroundings. It's my home.

- Michael Phelps

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything

I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say

I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the

Younger generation of swimmers coming along.

- Michael Phelps

When the Australians walked out, the crowd went nuts, and when 

We walked out, the crowd went even more nuts. I can't describe how Amazing that was. Three thousand people were here rooting for the

Two strongest swimming nations. I'll never forget that, and I was glad

To be part of it.

- Michael Phelps

080616 quotes

The most important thing when you have a quarterback

Battle is quarterbacks focus on what they need to do and

Not what the other guy is doing.

- Coach Nick Saban

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting

At one another … until we speak quietly enough so that

our words can be heard as well as our voices.
- Richard M. Nixon

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father
goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents

Is the bill presented to us by our children.
- Nancy Friday