"Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price."

Lombardi, Vince on price
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"You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable."

Popplestone, Charles E. on excellence   

"If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done."

Ditka, Mike on price   

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

Lasorda, Tommy on determination
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"Today's preparation determines tomorrow's achievement."

Unknown, Source on preparation
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"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure."

Powell, Colin on success
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"Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty."

Bible on work
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"I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."

Hughes, Charles Evans on work
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"The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less."

Sampras, Pete on competition   

"I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat."

Penick, Harvey on competition   

"When you win nothing hurts."

Namath, Joe on football
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"Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."

Lombardi, Vince on football
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"In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever."

Montana, Joe on sports   

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."

Wooden, John on sports
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"People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman."

Navratilova, Martina on sports   

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."

Orwell, George on sports
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"Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will."

Blomberg, Ron on commitment
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