"The more time I spend keeping my eye on who God is, His perspective, His goal for me, the more fun I have, the more joyful I feel, the more peace I have."
- Michelle Akers, Olympic Gold Medalist, World Cup Champion, Women's Soccer Player of the Century
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"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
-Michael Jordan, Former NBA player
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Dallas Cowboys
'04 Training Camp
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"God wants you to try your best. He wants you to give glory for your achievements to Him. So obviously, He wants you to win. It is still my job. I still want to be the best I can be."
- Loren Roberts,
PGA Tour Golfer
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"For your life to go the way it needs to go, God needs to be first."
- Derek Fisher,
Los Angles Lakers
3x NBA World Champion
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“Wherever He wants me to go, I am willing.”
- Leah O'Brien-Amico
Three-time Olympic Gold Medalist,
Three-time NCAA Championship-University of Arizona.
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Do not boast about
tomorrow, for you
do not know what
a day may bring forth.
(Proverbs 27:1)
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"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
-John Wooden
Former college basketball coach
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"A hot dog at the ballpark is better than steak at the Ritz."
- Humphrey Bogart
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"If you can't accept losing, you can't win."
- Vince Lombardi
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"In the everyday pressures of life, I have learned that God’s promises are true. My favorite scripture verse is from Proverbs, “A gentle answer turns away wrath.” (Proverbs 15:1)."
Garret Anderson- Angels baseball player
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"Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."
-Vince Lombardi
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"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"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
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"In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
-William Arthur Ward
American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher
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It can be the stormiest day in the world, but I don't worry about it.
I know God is going to take care of me.
-Shaun Alexander
Seattle Seahawks Running Back
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The peace and fulfillment He gives is greater than anything in life. Greater than any ball game, even the World Series.
-Andy Pettitte
Pitcher, New York Yankees
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"You give your best,
you do the ultimate and then
you give praise where the ability
came from,
and the ability came from God."
-Orel Hershiser
Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, New York Mets, Los Angles Dodgers
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God had an eye out for me, just as He has for you, and He was pulling for me to make the grade.
-Babe Ruth
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"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."
-Joe Paterno,
College football coach
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I want the fans to see and know Jesus.
I want my teammates to see and
know Jesus.
- David Robinson
San Antonio Spurs
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"There are so many great Christian principles that carry over to football. You need discipline, you need to be committed. You need to work hard, and you always need to be ready. You've got to do all those things both as a Christian and as an athlete."
-Mark Brunell
3-Time All-Pro NFL Quarterback
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"Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and
it never eases up on the pressure."
-Joe Garagiola,
Former Cardinals catcher
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"One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want, and where you have to, reach down and
prove something."
-Nolan Ryan,
Former Astros pitcher
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"I don't want my children to remember me as a great professional football player. I want them to remember me as a man of God."
- Reggie White,
Super Bowl Champion, Green Bay Packers
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"Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do something. If it's something that you really want to do in your heart, stick with it and work hard and just keep your faith in Christ."
- Ty Law
Defensive Back
New England Patriots/Michigan
2x Super Bowl Champion
3x NFL All-Pro
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"You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed to what God gives you."
- David Robinson
NBA World Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist
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"Before I found Christ
I had all the material comforts and all the money and all the fame and popularity,
but I had no peace."
- Deion Sanders
Chasing the Wind
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"Sports do not build character...they reveal it."
- John Wooden
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"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."
-Martina Navratilova, U.S. tennis player
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"I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities."
- John Robinson
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"Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals."
- Dr. James Naismit
The father of basketball
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"Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records."
-William A. Ward
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"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."
-Hank Aaron
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"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a mans determination."
-Tommy Lasorda
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"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
-John Wooden
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"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
-John Wooden
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"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."
-Vince Lombardi
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"Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!"
-Pat Riley
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"You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you."
- Roy Campanella
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"The peace and fulfillment He gives is greater than anything in life. Greater than any ball game, even the World Series. Trust Christ today for your salvation, it's the only way to heaven."
-Andy Pettitte
New York Yankees
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"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."
- Grace Lichtenstein
American Writer & Editor
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"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."
- Vince Lombardi
1913-1970 US football coach
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"I'm always trying to give 100 percent to God - anything less would be unacceptable as far as Christ is concerned. He...gave 100 percent of Himself for us - He died for us! If He had given anything else we would fall well short of reaching God."
- Dave Johnson
Olympic Medalist, Decathon
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"Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world."
- Babe Ruth
Former Yankees outfielder
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"On the court, my faith in Jesus allows me to play with a clean heart. I play as hard as anybody, but I do it because of my love for Him and my love of the game."
- Derek Fisher
National Basketball AssociationGuard, Arkansas-Little Rock
Los Angles Lakers
3x NBA World Champion
NBA Rookie All-Star Team
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"Sportsmanship for me is when a guy walks off the court and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way."
- Jim Courier,
Professional Tennis Champion
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"Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."
- Vince Lombardi
1913-1970 US football coach
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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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"I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say 'We'll just have to see'."
- Dick Fosbury
Won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Games after he invented a revolutionary high-jump technique.
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"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
- Vince Lombardi
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"All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims."
- Lou Holtz
former Notre Dame football coach
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"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. "
-Steve Young
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"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-Will Rogers
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I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance.
I've never believed my critics
or my worshippers,
and I've always been able to
leave the game at the arena.
-Charles Barkley
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"In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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Champions aren't made in the gyms.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside them–
a desire, a dream, a vision.
- Muhammad Ali, American Boxer
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My life isn't good because I'm a football player. I'm a football player because my life is good. Jesus Christ has made my life good. His grace and His forgiveness have changed me.
-John Kitna
National Football League Quarterback
Cincinnati
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When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
-Willie Stargell
MLB Hall of Famer
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Many things in this world will fail us, but never the Lord.
-Todd Hollandsworth
Colorado Rockies
1995 National League Rookie of the Year
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"I look at things now as, 'What is God saying to me?' In the past I cared about what the world was saying."
- Randall Cunningham
NFL Quarterback
NFL Most Valuable Player
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"When I finally gave my life over to God - it was then the joy and happiness came into my life."
- Kurt Warner
NFL quarterback
2X NFL Most Valuable Player
Super Bowl Champion and MVP
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