How do you look at your chanllenges?

Answer 1

Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination

"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."

Sports don't build your character.

Sports expose your character

The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision.

There is no glory in practice, but without practice, there is no glory...

Remember, if you are not playing your heart out, someone else is. And when you meet him, he will win."

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

People don't play sports because its fun. Ask any athlete, most of them hate it, but they couldn't imagine their life with out it. Its part of them, the love/hate relationship. Its what they live for. They live for the practices, parties, cheers, long bus rides, invitationals, countless pairs of different types of shoes, water, Gatorade, & coaches you hate but appreciate. They live for the way it feels when they beat the other team, and knowing those two extra sprints they ran in practice were worth it. They live for the way they become a family with their team, they live for the countless songs they sing in their head while training all those hours. They live for the competition, they live for the friends, the practices, the memories, the pain, its who they are. It's who we are.