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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

If at first you don’t succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

It’s not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.

Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.

The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.

Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.

Rest if you must, but never quit.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end.

The essence of sports is that while you’re doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.