Michael Phelps
o If you say "can't" you are restricting what you can do or ever will do.
o If you're not mentally tough, you're not learning what coach is teaching you.
o I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it
o I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
Jack Nicklaus
o If you say "can't" you are restricting what you can do or ever will do.o If you're not mentally tough, you're not learning what coach is teaching you.
o I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it
o I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
Jack Nicklaus
o Focus on remedies, not faults.
o Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
o Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
o The game is meant to be fun.
Eamonn Coughlan
o I became a runner when I thought like a runner and acted like a runner.o "I'd visualise myself winning a race. Before I'd leave my room, the last thing I'd do was look in the mirror and whisper, 'come on you little f**ker. You better win this race.'
o I realised that I was just as good as these guys in Villanova. If they were that confident, why couldn't I be too? It was a combination of growing self -belief, natural talent and the work. Those three things started to merge and then I became really confident about everything I was doing on the track.
Sir Edmund Hilary
o It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves
o People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
o You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated.
Muhammad Ali
o The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.o Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
o It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
o Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
o Don't count the days. Make the days count.
