“To reach a certain level of success in any field that you're in, you have to have an ego that's gonna say 'I wanna be the best.' This is what's gonna drive me when it becomes hell or high water. You'll say 'this needs to get done. I need to be successful.'”— Kobe Bryant, youtube.com
“If you sit back and spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you’re going to come up short next time.”— Bill Belichick, quoteambition.com
“Needless to say, being alone on an island with Curry is not an ideal vacation for most NBA players.”— Maximo Gonzales, clutchpoints.com
“It's not about talent. It's about heart. It's about who can go out there and play the hardest. They're not gonna give you anything. So you gotta go out there and you gotta take it.”— Josh Lucus, amazon.com
“Tonight is not about the past and it's not about the future. It's about right now. And you guys have gotta want this night to last forever.”— Billy Donovan, amazon.com
“At that moment a voice came over me and said, Look up, get up, and don't ever give up. You tell everyone or anyone that has ever doubted, thought they did not measure up or wanted to quit, you tell them to look up, get up and don't ever give up.”— Michael Irvin, espn.com
“There are a lot of people out here tonight who think you are the least likely candidate to be successful...Now they're bigger and they got athletes going to Division I schools, we can see that and so can everybody else. But nobody can see the intangible with us...be the intangible tonight.”— Tony Arcuri, aplus.com
“When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.”— Yogi Berra, aplus.com
“I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger”— Mia Hamm, amazon.com
“The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special”— Eddie Reece, rd.com