All Quotes of the Day
“Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”
Jesse Owens
US athlete
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.“
Vince Lombardi
US football coach
“A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.”
Brianna Scurry
US soccer player
“A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.”
Bill Shankly
English soccer manager
“Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.”
Roy Keane
Irish soccer player and English football club manager
“Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.”
Mia Hamm
US soccer player
“The vision of a champion is someone bent over, drenched in sweat, to a point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.”
Anson Dorrance
US soccer manager
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
Pele
Brazilian soccer player
“The secret of winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals. I play not my 11 best, but my best 11.”
Knute Rockne
American football coach
“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.”
Unknown
“I don’t think I could have a higher opinion of any footballer than I already had of the Irishman, but he rose even further in my estimation at the Stadio Delle Alpi. The minute he was booked and out of the final he seemed to redouble his efforts to get the team there. It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. I felt it was an honour to be associated with such a player.”
Sir Alex Ferguson (on Roy Keane after the European Cup semi-final in 1999)
English soccer manager
Jesse Owens
US athlete
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.“
Vince Lombardi
US football coach
“A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.”
Brianna Scurry
US soccer player
“A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.”
Bill Shankly
English soccer manager
“Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.”
Roy Keane
Irish soccer player and English football club manager
“Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.”
Mia Hamm
US soccer player
“The vision of a champion is someone bent over, drenched in sweat, to a point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.”
Anson Dorrance
US soccer manager
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
Pele
Brazilian soccer player
“The secret of winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals. I play not my 11 best, but my best 11.”
Knute Rockne
American football coach
“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.”
Unknown
“I don’t think I could have a higher opinion of any footballer than I already had of the Irishman, but he rose even further in my estimation at the Stadio Delle Alpi. The minute he was booked and out of the final he seemed to redouble his efforts to get the team there. It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. I felt it was an honour to be associated with such a player.”
Sir Alex Ferguson (on Roy Keane after the European Cup semi-final in 1999)
English soccer manager