“The hard days are the best because that’s where champions are made.” – Gabby Douglas
“It’s not about winning or losing a competition; it’s about beating the doubt inside yourself and knowing at the end of the day, you’re one step closer to your goals.” – Jonathan Horton
“I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.” – Simone Biles
“Practice creates confidence. Confidence empowers you.” – Simone Biles
“If you’re a little different or a little rebellious, or if you have something that makes you unique and you’re willing to express it, I think people will be drawn to you.” – Aly Raisman
“Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something.” – Shawn Johnson
“The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.” – Bobby Knight
“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” – Dan Gable
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision.” – Muhammad Ali
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pelé
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.” – Tim Duncan
“Adversity causes some men to break and others to break records.” – William Arthur Ward
“The only way to prove you are a good sport is to lose.” – Ernie Banks
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” – John Wooden
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
“Passion first and everything will fall into place.” – Holly Holm
“Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
“I don’t run away from a challenge because I’m afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.” – Nadia Comaneci
“Be the hardest-working person you can be. That’s how you separate yourself from the competition.” – Simone Biles
“Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” – Shaquille O’Neal
“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice
“I think goals should never be easy; they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” – Michael Phelps
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not the absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
“Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team.” – Joshua Medcalf
“To uncover your true potential, you must first find your own limits and then have the courage to blow past them.” – Picabo Street
“The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret.” – Sarah Bombell
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.” – John Wooden
“Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.” – Larry Bird
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Pelé
Goodbye! (Ciao! – Italian)