I'm hungry. I'm ready to grow.
I don't do anything unless I can give it 100%.
Whatever I do, I want to be the best.
I'm just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That's all I'm focused on.
History is earned. You win the day, and then you win the day after, and you do the same thing every day until you're dead. And you're remembered not for the winning, but because you never lost.
Francis Underwood in House of Cards - Season 5 Episode 8
1Tough times do not last, tough people do.
I don’t fold under pressure. Great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me!
A true champion will fight through anything.
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in getting what we want, that we forget to ask ourselves why we wanted it in the first place.
Ian Gallagher in Shameless - Season 3 Episode 1
You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.
You challenge me and I feel more alive than I have done in years
Ivory Quinn in Obsession - Darkness Falls
6The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
That's what divides one from a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you make it to be a champion, if you can´t go through, forget it.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.
Mister Spock in Star Trek - Season 2 Episode 1
3The simpler paths may look that way in the beginning, but the path you have chosen has left you better prepeared for what you now face. You should not have any regret for your choices.
Arch Druid in The Silver Lining - Episode 2: Two Households
1I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving!
I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
I did it because I wanted to, because I needed to, because I had to, but mainly because you said I couldn’t!
Have you ever felt like you were a little bit different? Like you had something unique to offer the world, if you could just get people to see it? Then you know exactly how it felt to be me.
Flint Lockwood in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
3I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.
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.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
True nobility lies not in being superior to another man, but being superior to one's previous self.
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali - nach Niederlage gegen Ken Norton am 31.03.1973
1Just had a good talk with God. Told me if we want something - work for it and he'll meet us halfway.
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Stewart Brand (Whole Earth Catalog) - ursprünglich nicht von Steve Jobs!
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.