Players should know that if you can’t make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.

~ Sue Wicks

There’s no reason to hold yourself back and say you can’t do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.

~ Russell Westbrook

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

~ Yani Tseng

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

~ Bart Starr

The pool is terrible, but that doesn’t have much to do with my record swims. That’s all mental attitude.

~ Mark Spitz

Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do … but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.

~ Venus Williams

Lawrence Okoye: ‘No limits’ on self

By ESPN.com news services
Originally Published: May 1, 2013

Olympic discus finalist Lawrence Okoye has never played football, but after signing with the San Francisco 49ers, he said he thinks that through hard work he can make an impact in the NFL.

The 49ers signed Okoye, 21, as an undrafted free agent and plan to train him to become a defensive lineman. The 6-foot-6, 304-pound British athlete wowed scouts at the super regional combine at Cowboys Stadium in April, running the 40-yard dash in 4.78 seconds and posting impressive results in the vertical jump (35 inches) and broad jump (10-foot-5)… Click here to read on

Learning Humility from the Fastest Runners in the World

By David Alm, Runner’s World
Originally Published: Thursday, 26 January 2012

I was an elite runner for exactly five days. In those five days, I learned that being an elite has surprisingly little to do with leg speed. It’s about attitude, about not drawing lines–neither ruling out possibilities nor dividing between levels of runners. And this sent me on a quest to understand that attitude, to adopt it, and to make it my own.

To say I earned such a privileged distinction, however short-lived it might have been, would be at once true and false… Click here to read on

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

~ Colleen C. Barrett

Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts.

~ Anonymous