Competition/Passion

“Failure is not the falling down, it is the staying down.”Unknown

“Luck favors the persistent.”
Jim Collins

“What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.”

Nietzche

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” 

Napoleon Hill

“Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges.”

Ray Bourque

“Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.”

Ray Bourque

“You’ve only got three choices in life: give up, give in, or give it all you’ve got.” 

Unknown

“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

“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.  You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.” 

Norman Vincent Peale

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out.  The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.  Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.  They’re there to stop the other people not you!”   

Randy Pausch 

“Courage doesn’t always roar.  Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, “I’ll try again tomorrow.”  

Mary Anne Radmacher

"No pressure, no diamonds."
Mary Case

“Most people are most vulnerable after triumph. Be disciplined enough to remain focused and committed even after victory.”Unknown

“They conquer who believe they can.”
Ralph Emerson

“Your performance today must come from a deeper place. No matter how hard, no matter how tough—you are expected to make a difference. Today are you ready, today are you at your best? So much depends on what you do today.”
Bronco Mendenhall

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Author Unknown

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the one who will win."
Roger Bannister

“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
Rick Pitino

“In global competition the only defense is a vigorous offense.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“The worst thing I can do is to not ask enough of my team.”
Bronco Mendenhall

“Hard work is not always fun, but it’s the price you must pay to be more successful.”
Rick Pitino

“If you are not getting better you are almost certainly getting worse.”
Rick Pitino

“You have to be your own toughest competitor.”
Andy Groves

“You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.”
Rick Pitino

“People just don’t get interested in a game if there’s no scoreboard.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“Passion is fire in the belly. It is the fuel that drives our engine and enables us to perform at levels we never thought we could.”
Unknown

“If nothing and no one are demanding superior performance from you, demand it of yourself.”
Rick Pitino

“Triumph is always nearest when defeat seems inescapable.”
BC Forbes

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
Margaret Thatcher

“Courage is being willing to fight for a cause even when sure of losing. Look deeply at life and you will find that there are many victories worse than defeat.”
Robert K. Cooper

“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value."
Thomas Paine

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running faster than the other."
African Proverb

“One doesn’t get to the future first by letting someone else blaze the trail.”
Hamel & Prahalad, Competing for the Future

“When wrestling a gorilla, you don’t quit when you’re tired—you quit when the gorilla is tired.”
Robert Strauss

“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goals. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”
Benjamin Mays

“While you’re celebrating success, someone else is laying plans to move up in the world.”
Pat Riley

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out to you.”
William James

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
Babe Ruth

“The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.”
William Arthur Ward

"Opportunities are like sunrises - if you wait too long, you miss them."
William Arthur Ward

"A team that won’t be defeated can’t be defeated."
Unknown

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
Walter Bagehot

"There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between."
Pat Riley

"Work is the doorway to possibility."
Unknown