Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere.
It's a result of something...
hours and days and weeks and years
of constant work and dedication.
--  Roger Staubach

Champions do not become champions
when they win the event,
but in the hours, weeks, months and years
they spend preparing for it.
The victorious performance itself is merely the
demonstration of their championship character.
--  T. Alan Armstrong

If you believe in yourself,
have dedication and pride and never quit,
you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high,
but so are the rewards.
-- Paul "Bear" Bryant

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
--  Aristotle

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated,
set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
--  Les Brown

Motivation is a fire from within.
If someone else tries to light that fire under you,
chances are it will burn very briefly.
--  Stephen R. Covey

People become really quite remarkable when
they start thinking that they can do things.
When they believe in themselves they
have the first secret of success.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

Winners compare their achievements
with their goals,
while losers compare their achievements
with those of other people.
--  Nido Qubein

If you accept the expectations of others,
especially negative ones,
then you never will change the outcome.
-- Michael Jordan

Champions aren't made in the gyms.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside them
-- a desire, a dream, a vision.
-- Muhammad Ali

Individual commitment to a group effort;
that is what makes a team work,
a company work, a society work,
a civilization work.
--  Vince Lombardi

Excellence is the unlimited ability
to improve the quality of what
you have to offer.
--  Rick Pitino