Phrases of the Day

You've noticed our "Phrases of the Day" and find them inspiring and motivating; maybe you cant wait for the new one to publish and daily check back to our site just to read the newest one. Here you find the past history of phrases already displayed in our rotation - dont worry, we wont reveal which one will be shown tomorrow, but rest assured - it wont be one we already have listed below. Enjoy !

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.
[ Mia Hamm ]

A champion is someone who gets up, even when they can't.
[ Unknown ]

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
[ Mark Spitz ]

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
[ Carl Lewis ]

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
[ Lance Armstrong ]

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
[ Lance Armstrong ]

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.
[ Lance Armstrong ]

During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope.
[ Lance Armstrong ]

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being.
[ Lance Armstrong ]

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.
[ Thomas Jefferson ]

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
[ Mario Andretti ]

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
[ Herschel Walker ]

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
[ Robert Townsend ]

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
[ Roger Von Oech ]

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
[ Ralph Vaull Starr ]

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
[ Lou Brock ]