BRUCE LEE ON THE WILL TO WIN

"The will to win. The attitude 'that you can win if you want to badly enough' means that the will to win is constant and no amount of punishment, no amount of effort, or no condition is too 'tough' to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner’s ideals and dreams. Experience shows that an athlete who forces himself to the limit, can keep going as long as necessary. It means that ordinary effort will not tap or release the tremendous store of reserve power latent in the human body. Extraordinary effort, highly emotionalized conditions, or a true determination to win at all costs will release this extra energy. Therefore an athlete is actually as tired as he feels, and if he is determined to win he can keep on almost indefinitely in order to achieve his objective."

-BRUCE LEE

ARE YOU PROUD OF HOW YOU LIVED TODAY?

"At night when I go to bed, I ask myself, 'If I don’t wake up tomorrow, would I be proud of how I lived today.'”

-Muhammad Ali

MJ ON THE IMPORTANCE OF FUNDAMENTALS

"The minute you get away from fundamentals, the bottom can fall out.  Fundamentals were the most crucial part of my game in the NBA. Everything I did, everything I achieved, can be traced back to the way I approached the fundamentals and how I applied them to my abilities."

-Michael Jordan

IT'S ABOUT MORE THAN JUST HAVING FUN

"I do know that I didn't enjoy little league baseball for the fun of playing.  I can't help it -- but that's true.  When i hear parents tell their kids today, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose, as long as you have fun,' I'm puzzled.  That's just now how I'm wired.  Bottom line, losing simply isn't any fun.  Oh sure, in thinking back on plays and moments, I knew I was loving every minute of playing the game.  But if there's a score, then there's a purpose to the game beyond having fun -- it's having a greater score.  Of course, there is intrinsic value in playing the game itself and how well you play it, and always playing to the best of your ability, but at some point the actual competition has to be a piece of the analysis as well.  After all, there'd be no point to the rules or to keeping score if it were simply only about having fun."

-Tim Tebow (from his book "Though My Eyes")

IT'S THE JOURNEY, NOT THE DESTINATION