1. "Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust." ~ Jesse Owens
2. "Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man." ~ Pele
3. "If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life." ~ Chris Evert Lloyd
4. "When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win." ~ Steffi Graf
5. "It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." ~ Hank Aaron
6. "No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room." ~ Muhammad Ali
7. "For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream." ~ Emmitt Smith
8. "I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it." ~ John Daly
9. "Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most." ~ Babe Didrikson Zaharias
10. "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." ~ Michael Jordan