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"Just because your muscles start to protest, doesn't mean you have to listen."Dianne Holum - Winner of four Olympic medals, including a gold, in speed skating in two Olympics
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"You can't measure success if you have never failed."Steffi Graf - Winner of 22 Grand Slam tennis titles
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"You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts."Brandi Chastain - World Cup and WUSA soccer star
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"I'd rather have more heart than talent any day."Allen Iverson - 2001 NBA MVP of the Philadelphia 76ers
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"Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back."Danny Villanueva - Chairman of Bastion Capital Corporation and former NFL placekicker
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"Being a champion in life is more important than a gold medal. That stays with you forever."Esther Kim - Tae kwon do champion
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"Thinking too much about how you're doing when you're doing is disastrous."Harvey Penick - Famous golf teacher
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"The thing is, you have to engage with life to have a life."Frank Deford - Renowned sportswriter and commentator
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"Don't make decisions because they are the easiest, the cheapest, or the most popular. Make your decision because it's right."Rev. Theodore Hesburgh - Former president of Notre Dame
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"Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots, we don't let ourselves hit good ones."Butch Harmon - Renowned golf instructor
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"If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won."Mia Hamm - Member of the U.S. national soccer team, 1999 World Cup champions
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"I don't know that it's true that you learn more from losing than from winning. I do know that you improve a lot more if you win."Rod Laver - Only two-time winner of the Grand Slam in tennis
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"Success is aiming for the stars, because if you fall short, you're going to land on the moon, and there are not too many people on the moon now, are there?"Amy Van Dyken - First American woman to win four gold medals in a single Olympics (swimming in 1996)
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"Everyone has some fear. A man who has no fear belongs in a mental institution. Or on special teams."Walt Michaels - Former New York Jets head coach
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"Sure you blew it tonight, but when it's over, it's over. Let it go. Otherwise you won't be ready to play tomorrow night."Dave Debusschere - Former NBA star of the New York Knicks
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"You expect success, you respect failure."Greg Norman - Two-time British Open champion
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"Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next."Lynn Sherr - Correspondent for ABC's 20/20
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"People fall down. Winners get up. Gold medal winners get up the fastest."Bonnie St. John - Paralympic medal-winning skier and Rhodes scholar
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"Identify your personal limits, and then push past them. Then set new barriers, and repeat the process, again and again and again."Nicole Haislett - Winner of three gold medals in swimming in the 1992 Olympic Games
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"Don't rate potential over performance."Hal Sherbeck - Former football coach at Fullerton College
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"Chance favors the prepared mind."Chuck Knox - Former NFL head coach
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"To win you must have talent and desire-but desire is first."Sam Snead - Hall of Fame golfer
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"I'm into the process of winning, not just winning. People who worry just about winning don't always win."Pierre Page - NHL head coach
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"You've got to think you can win, no matter what age you are."Arnold Palmer - Hall of Fame golf legend
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"Somewhere along the line, people motivated only by money lose the edge."Jeremy Mcgrath - All-time leader in Supercross wins and season championships
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"It does not really matter who I play, because all I can do is play the best I can. I focus on my own game."Annika Sorenstam - LPGA Player of the Year and first woman to break 60 in an LPGA tournament
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"If you leave yourself an out, you're setting yourself up for failure."Michael Weiss - Two-time U.S. figure skating champion
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"You've got to be ready to play hockey every night. When things go bad, they go bad. Soon as the game's over, you have got to forget about it. Learn from your mistakes and move on."Mathieu Schneider - Los Angeles Kings defenseman
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"You've got to have patience and take what's given you. At the same time, you can't be afraid to pull the trigger."Jerry Bailey - Hall of Fame jockey and four-time winner of Eclipse Award as nation's most outstanding jockey
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"It's real easy to gain a focus and concentration when you feel like you're in a must-win game."Scott Brosius- New York Yankee third baseman
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