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"Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it."
- Ian Darke, soccer commentator

“It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference."
- Coach Paul W. "Bear" Bryant, football coach

"Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested."
- Tom Kite, golfer

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
- Ernest Hemingway, author

"At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence."
- Arsene Wenger, soccer manager

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club wont be worth a dime."
- Babe Ruth, baseball player

"The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players."
- Don Coryell, football coach

"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game."
- Bill Shankly, soccer manager/player

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
- Frank Zappa, singer

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."
- Charlie Finley, baseball owner

"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser."
- Lou Holtz, football coach

“Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.”
- Bill Shankly, soccer manager/player

"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
- Herschel Walker, football player

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
- Darrel Royal, football coach

“A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.”
- Brianna Scurry, soccer player

"You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win."
- Arsene Wenger, soccer manager

"Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering"

"The first thing a manager or coach needs to learn how to do is listen"

" If it isn't fun, it's not soccer"

"Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point"

-Tony Dicicco

It was true 2,000 years ago, it's still true today:

"If the blind lead the blind, they end up in a ditch."
-Jesus

The vision of a champion is someone bent over, drenched in sweat, to a point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching. -Anson Dorrance

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. -Roy Keane

I fell in love with football as I would later fall in love with women: suddenly, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain it would bring. -Nick Hornby (Fever Pitch)

What does Sherman think? Let's take the Wayback Machine to the 1960s and ask him.

So when you're tackling out there today, I want you to throw your body at the girl with such a clattering of bones and gristle that she'll be worried about having a scar from her kneecap to her ankle. I want her wondering, 'If I finish this game, will I ever be able to wear a skirt again?'" -Anson Dorrance

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."
-Pele

"I'm tired."

- Urban Meyer