I’ve been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn’t get anything done. I don’t know. I’m playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

~ Chris Webber

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.

~ Joe Theismann

I’ll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

~ Tim Tebow

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

~ Don Shula

Wayne Rooney will stay calm in Montenegro, says Joleon Lescott

By Phil McNulty, BBC Sports
Originally Published: 24 March 2013

England defender Joleon Lescott expects Wayne Rooney to cope with any provocation he may face in Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier in Montenegro.

Rooney, 27, missed the first two games of England’s Euro 2012 campaign after being sent off for kicking Montenegro’s Miodrag Dzudovic as Fabio Capello’s side were held 2-2 in Podgorica in a qualifying game in October 2011… Click here to read on

Never discourage anyone… who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

~ Plato

But you have to remember in life that there’s a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

~ Anne Hathaway

Dwight Howard wants positivity

By Dave McMenamin, ESPNLosAngeles.com
Originally Published: 25 January 2013

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Will the gray skies hovering over the Los Angeles Lakers’ 17-25 season clear up? Dwight Howard still thinks so.

“Negativity just got to stop,” Howard said after the team’s shootaround Friday. “I’m sick of hearing about it. I’m sick of hearing about all the negative stuff. It’s a big problem. Negativity is just not good. We got to bring some positivity to this situation, to everybody.”… Click here to read on

I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say “We’ll just have to see.”

~ Dick Fosbury

When I was in college, people told me I couldn’t play in the NBA. There’s always somebody saying you can’t do it, and those people have to be ignored.

~ Bill Cartwright