Quotes for Those who Strive to... BE
"Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a
circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to
surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition."
George F. Will
"Often the true test of courage is not to die but to live"
Count Vittorio Alfieri
"You have to go into the jungle, find the lion, and spit in his face...then shoot him. You guys are not good enough to win on
talent alone...you have to want it."
Herbie Brooks- coach of the 1980 U.S. olympic hockey team
"it's a dream until you write it down, and then its a goal."
Anonymous
"I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work"
Thomas Edison
"If you love what you do, you won't work a day in your life"
origin unknown, but sent in by gymnastics coach Jodi Franklin
"There are some who are born scared, afraid, and not willing to show some sack or guts. We eat those people for breakfast.
NO FEAR
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold
and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat"
Theodore Roosevelt
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
Abraham Lincoln
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure . . . than to rank with those
poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"If not you, who? If not now, when?"
Garry Herbert - 1992 Olympic 2+ rowing Finalist
"If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations."
Scott Tinley
"Obstacles are those freightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals"
Author unknown
"Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal"
Mike Ditka (Super Bowl Champion as player and coach, also a heart attack victim)
"Success is getting up one more time than you fall down"
Author Unknown
"Good things come to those whow ork hard"
Gary Ernst
