Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
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.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
It's not about the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
The more I practice, the luckier I get.