Quotes About Growth

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

Sports are a metaphor for life.

It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

Falling and getting back up is what brings you success.