“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”

- Victor Hugo

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

"When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen."

- John Pierpont Morgan

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

- Steven Paul Jobs

"Waddle on, friends."

- John Bingham

submitted by Wendy Wiggins Kelley

"If you want to become a better runner, you need to run."

- Richard Dupuis

submitted by Brenda Laverty Armstrong

"You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours."

- Herb Brooks

"I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.”

- Steve Fossett

“It’s not what you achieve in life, it’s what you overcome.”

- Tiger Woods

"One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself...

...and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete!"

- Jack Palance

Coca-Cola Olympic Commercial

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. "

- Abraham Lincoln

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"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."

- Baron Pierre de Coubertin borrowed from a sermon by the Bishop of Pennsylvania during the 1908 Olympic Games

"Citius, Altius, Fortius."

    (Swifter, Higher, Stronger.}

- Baron de Coubertin borrowed from Father Henri Martin Dideon

“If you want to win anything- a race, yourself, your life- you have to go a little berserk.”

- George Sheehan

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. "

- Nelson Mandela

"Luck is the residue of design."

- Branch Rickey

“There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.”

- Scotty Bowman

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing!"

- Walt Disney

"We're going to win...I guarantee it!"

- Joe Namath

"If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth."

- Bob Marley

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

- George Washington Carver