Here are 28 quotes from some of the best coaches:
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.” – Vince Lombardi
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
“Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.” – John Wooden
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“Practice like you’ve never won. Perform like you’ve never lost.” – Unknown
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
“Talent is never enough. With few exceptions, the best players are the hardest workers.” – Magic Johnson
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pelé
“There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” – Derek Jeter
“Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt POSITIVE SLEEP QUOTES
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
“Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can.” – John Wooden
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“I can’t play basketball forever. I am going to have to live the rest of my life without it, so it’s not really that big of a deal when you really think about it.” – Kobe Bryant
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” – William Arthur Ward
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Pele
“It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” – Paul “Bear” Bryant
“Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is more important than the outcome.” – Arthur Ashe
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.” – Charles Richter
“The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph.” – Swami Sivananda
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” – Muhammad Ali