Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Lopez

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

Elizabeth Olsen

When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.

Bobby Knight

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

Bobby Knight

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

Billy Beane

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

Billie Jean King

Don't be afraid to hit the ball.

Clive Woodward

'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second...

Bear Bryant

There's no substitute for guts.

Danny Strong

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

Charles Caleb Colton

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Charles Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

Charles Spurgeon

Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.

David Seabury

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

David S. Rose

The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

David Sarnoff

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Carolina Herrera

In fashion, you have to have perseverance. You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it.

William Shakespeare

Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

Earl Monroe

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Dick Fosbury

I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see".

Joe Frazier

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

Jesse Ventura

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

Katarina Witt

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Rest if you must, but never quit.