Attitude and Motivation

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
Yoda (Star Wars)

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
Unknown

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."
Archie Griffin

"Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."
Duffy Daugherty

"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
Gale Sayers

"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
Herschel Walker

"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser."
Lou Holtz

"A winner never whines."
Paul Brown

"If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it."
Ronnie Lott

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
Vince Lombardi

"Winners never quit and quitters never win. The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."
George Shultz

"What does it take to be number 1? 2 is not a winner and 3 nobody remembers."
Cornel Haynes

"Winning is a habit and its 75% in the mind of the individual."
Unknown

"Winning isn’t everything, but making that effort to win is."
Vince Lombardi

"Don’t expect more from someone, than you are willing to give yourself."
Unknown

Mountain and Valley People
"Mountain - live life on the edge, go to the top. Get people out of the way because they are taking up room.
Valley - Losers ‘I will survive’, draggin at the back, propping up everyone else. Losers but yet to realise it."
Frank Dick

"It is cowards that do not want to try that say it ‘can not be done’."
Unknown

"No matter how good you are, if you go out with the wrong attitude you will lose."
Unknown

"If you don’t want it get out the way coz someone behind you does, and you’ll get trampled by their worshippers."
Unknown

"If your mind can conceive it and you heart can believe it then you can achieve it."
Unknown

Defeat

"Victorious win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win."
Sun Tzo

Failure

"You may be disappointed if you fail but your doomed if you don’t try."
Beverly Sills

"Act as if it was impossible to fail"
Dorothea Blande

Heroes

"React while everyone else is still thinking"
Unknown