I would like to start with the following:
You can’t play a patience game with them. They take command and like to take command and if you let them, they will. [on how to beat Australia]
[Brian Lara[/COLOR]]
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*It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. *
**[Muhammad Ali]**
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*You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. *
****[Michael Jordan] ****
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“The most important thing for us is to realize that last season is over and this one is completely different. And that if we don't run or battle until the end we won't win anything,”.
[Ronaldinho]
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I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.
[Tiger Woods]
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“Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”
[Pele]
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
[Imran Khan]
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great thread :k: and some nice quotes!
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We could have an entire library on Ali.
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“When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.”
[Michael Schumacher]
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
[Lance Armstrong]
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins. Not through strength, but through persistence.”
[The Rock]
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Muhammad Ali
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Float like a butterfly sting like a bee.
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Martina Navratilova
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The mark of great sportsmen is not how got they are at their best, but good they are at their worst.
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^ Thanks brother for sharing.
We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
[Zinedine Zidane]
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
[Sachin Tendulkar]
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
*-Seneca] *
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, thats the day you start to the top.
*-O.J. Simpson] *
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
*-Archie Griffen], two-time Heisman winner ( 5ft 9) *
There's no substitute for guts.
*-Paul Bear Bryant] *
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
*-Joe Paterno] *
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
-Coach Darrel Royal]
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
*-Ronnie Lott]*
You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
*-Damon Runyon]*
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
*Steve Young] *
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. Thats the mark of a true professional.
-Joe Paterno]
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The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
-Vidal Sassoon]
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
*-Jean-Claude Killy] *
"Courage" is resistance to fear, mastery of "fear not" is absence of fear.
-Mark Twain]
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
-Vincent T. Lombardi]
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
*-Thomas Edison] *
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
[Muhammad Ali]
World Champion Boxer
**When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.**
[Harriet Beecher Stowe]
**Success means the courage, the determination and the will to become the person you believe you're meant to be.**
[George Sheedan]
WHO YOU ARE TODAY IS THE RESULT OF THE GOALS YOU SET FOR YOURSELF IN THE PAST.And WHOEVER YOU WANT TO BECOME WILL BE THE RESULT OF THE GOALS YOU SET FOR YOURSELF TODAY.
**The quality of the answers that we get in life is truly determined by the quality of the questions we ask.
** **Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
**[Benjamin Disraeli1804-1881, British Statesman and Prime Minister]
Nice thread STP
"Jason Gillespie is a 30-year-old in a 36-year-old body"
Bob Willis
"Now, Pakistan are in real trouble."
Tony Greig (with Pakistan on 9/58 against Australia @ Sharjah, 2002)
"It's tough for a natural hooker to give it up"
Ian Chappell
"Man, it don't matter where you come in to bat, the score is still zero."
Viv Richards to Sunil Gavaskar (Madras 1983)
Gavaskar had decided to come in at no 4 for that test. But Malcolm Marshall got Anshuman Gaekwad and Dilip Vengsarkar for ducks , Gavaskar had to walk in at 0/2. Gavaskar made 236*
Greg Thomas was bowling to Viv Richards in a county game. Viv missed a superb outswinger, and Thomas said "It's red, round and weighs about 5 ounces. "Next ball Viv hits Greg Thomas out of the ground and replies, "Greg, you know what it looks like. Go ahead and find it !"
"Playing against a team with Ian Chappell as a captain turns cricket match into gang warfare."
Mike Brearly
"There was a slight interruption there for athletics"
Richie Benaud, referring to a streaker at Lord's, BBC TV
"I don't know what these fellows are doing, but whatever they are doing, they sure are doing it well"
Pete Sampras on watching Lara and Ambrose at Lord's.
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen"
Michael Jordan
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^Thanks brother for sharing
"The harder you practice, the luckier you get" - **Gary Player
**"Winners do what losers don't want to do. Winners find solutions to problems. Losers find problems with solutions."
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent – Marilyn Vos Savant
"No pressure, no diamonds." - Mary Cass
Regardless of Talent, one cannot be exceptional without desire
-Hiko Sejouro-
"anyone can win when they play well....great players win when they don't"
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
- African proverb
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.