"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. The principle is competing against yoursel...

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. It comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts i...

Herb Adderley , the Packers’ All-Pro cornerback, recalls Vince Lombardi talking to him after a game against that Chicago Bears. “You just ...

“Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.” -Tony LaRussa

“People ask me what I do in winter when there is no baseball. I will tell you what I do, I stare out the window and wait for spring.” -Roger...

When the Cincinnati Reds signed Pete Rose in 1961, the organization made a regular habit of signing young Cincinnati-area players to fill i...

"At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable and eventually inevitable." -Christopher Reeves

“In the end, it’s extra effort that separates a winner from second place. Butwinning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complet...

Practice is finished, but Patrick Peterson isn’t. He walks across the green turf of LSU’s indoor practice facility, into a corner of the m...

''We got better yesterday. We got better on Wednesday. We're going to have a better team this Sunday. That really has been a tra...

As he neared retirement, Hall of Fame third baseman George Brett said, “In my last at bat, I would like to hit a ground ball to the second ...

You identify yourself by what you do when no one is watching.  The supervised athlete may be the harest worker, the most selfless and respon...

"Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't." -Jerry Rice-

" Ted Williams , who knew just about everything there was to know about hitting, was always trying to learn more." -Ernie Harwel...

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that files feels the attraction of earth." -- Henry Wads...