GOOD
QUOTES
“The most
important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as
the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The
essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”
-Pierre
de Coubertin, "The Olympic Creed" Inspired
by Bishop Ethelbert Talbot, speech, Olympic Games
1908
"Citius, Altius, Fortius" [Faster, Higher, Stronger]
Father Didon was a friend of
Baron Pierre de Coubertin who made this the Olympic
Motto.
-Henri
Martin Didon, The Olympic
Motto
Winners
never quit and quitters never win.
-Anon.
Success is
how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
-General
George Patton
“If I
wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better
reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily . . .
and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard
work.”
-Bruce
Jenner, In "Can't Stop the Music: Twenty Years
Later, 1976 Decathlon Champion Bruce Jenner Is Busier
than Ever" by Mike Downey, "LA Times",
"Eighty
percent of success is showing up."
-Woody
Allen
"Defeat
never comes to any man until he admits it."
-Josephus
Daniels
"He
conquers who endures."
"Obstacles
are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."