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I play the game, I play it smart, my energy comes from the heart. I use my head, I use my feet. WHY? because I'm 100% Athlete..
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest until your good is better and your better is best.
Life is full of risks. You can't steal second with one foot on first.
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.
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.
Nothing in this world is what it ought to be. It's harsh and cruel. That's why there's us. Champions. Doesn't matter where
we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world is as it should be.
To show it what it can be.
Hero's get remembered, but legends never die.
An athlete is a normal person with the gift of an undying passion to be the best and achieve greatness.
Courage is the discovery that you may not win and trying when you know you may lose.
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.
Don't even bother with excuses. Excuses are like feet. Everyone has them and they stink.
Even when you've played the game of your life, it's the feeling of teamwork that you'll remember. You'll forget the plays,
the shots, and the scores. But you'll never forget your teammates.
Love the game. Love the game for the pure joy of accomplishment. Love the game for everything it can teach you about yourself.
Love the game for the feeling of belonging to a group endeavoring to do its best. Love the game for being involved in a team
whose members can't wait to see you do your best. Love the game for the challenge of working harder than you ever have at
something and then harder than that. Love the game because it takes all team members to give it life. Love the game because
at its best, the game tradition will include your contributions. Love the game because you belong to a long line of fine athletes
who have loved it. It is now your legacy. Love the game so much that you will pass on your love of the game to another athlete
who has seen your dedication, your work, your challenges, your triumphs... and then that athlete will, because of you, love
the game.
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the
roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team,
as a family
Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Don't be content with average because average is just as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
Sports remain a great metaphor for life's more difficult lessons. It was through athletics that many of us first came
to understand that fear can be tamed; that on a team the whole is more than the sum of its parts; and that the ability to
be heroic lies, to a surprising degree, within.
Some people ask me how I run so fast; I say what do you do when you hear a gun?
Ah, the glories of women's sports: the camaraderie. The quiet dignity. The proud refusal to buy into traditional stereotypes
of beauty.
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game
winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Victory is what happens when thousands of hours of practice meet with one moment of opportunity.
A game begins the moment you forget you are playing
Athletes are driven by commitment. To their sport. To themselves. To excellence itself. Commitment fuels the extra mile,
the final set, the last quarter, the sprint to the line. Going on when the body begs to stop.
You can either throw in the towel, or use it to wipe off your sweat.
You opponent, in the end, is never really the player up to bat, the girl in center field, or the team in the other dugout,
or even the ball you must catch. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.
Team - you don't always have to like each other, but you do have to be able to count on each other.
Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big,
Play for the name on the front of your jersey, not the 1 on the back.
Don't be content with average. Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
So go ahead, argue with the refs, change the rules, cheat a title, take a break and tend to your wounds, but play. Play.
Play hard, play fast, play loose and free. Play as if there's no tomorrow. It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you
play the game.
If you are not willing to risk it all then you don't want it bad enough.
Just because someone tells you that you can't do something doesn't mean you have to listen.
People don't play sports because it is fun. Ask any athlete, most of them hate it, but they couldn't imagine their life
without it. It's part of them, the hate/love relationship. It's what they live for. They live for the practices, parties,
cheers, long bus rides, invitationals, countless pairs of different types of shoes, water, Gatorade and coaches you hate but
appreciate. They live for the way it feels when you beat the team next to you by 1 point in overtime and you know those 2
extra sprints you ran in practice were worth it. They live for the way you become a family with your team, they live for the
countless songs you sing in your head when running all those suicides. They love for the competition, they live for the friends,
the practices, the memories, the pain, it's who they are. It's who we are. We are athletes...
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