Thursday Thirteen

"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club wont be worth a dime. "
-Babe ruth

"The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players."
-Don Coryell, ex-San Diego Chargers Coach

"There's no substitute for guts."
-Paul Bear Bryant

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
-Vince Lombardi

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
-Michael Jordan

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
-John Wooden

"When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I'm gonna prove you wrong."
-Picabo Street

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
-Amelia Earhart

"Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself."
-Shannon Miller

"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost."
-Martina Navratilova, American Tennis Player

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
-Billie Jean King

"Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves." ~Rita Mae Brown