If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
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.
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.
You can't put a limit anything.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
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