The power of a proper mental attitude is immeasurable. Great things can be achieved on the basketball court and in life if you display a positive attitude.
"Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream you're dead."
-- Jim Valvano"...each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that's one heckuva full day..."
-- Jim ValvanoIt is good to remember that the tea kettle, although up to is neck in hot water, continues to sing.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson"Your attitude affects your altitude."
-- Jim AlfonsoWhatever you undertake, do it with enthusiasm.
Act confidently, think confidently, and you will be confident.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
"Play the game with a smile."
-- Earl "The Pearl" Monroe"I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win."
-- Michael Jordan"We are not going to play them; they are going to play us."
-- Hank IbaIf it is to be, it is up to me.
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm."
-- Vince Lombardi"Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk."
-- J.C. PenneyIf you practice with emotion and purpose you'll play with passion and confidence.
CAN'T -- The ugliest of all 4-letter words. Believe in yourself and your abilities. "I CAN..."
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
-- William Jones"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks."
-- Joe Paterno"Never believe you're better than anybody else, but remember that you're just as good as everybody else."
-- Joshua Wooden"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."
-- Andy Rooney"The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be."
-- William JamesIf what you did yesterday still looks big to you then you haven't done much today.
"Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt."
-- Robert De Niro, in 'Ronin'"To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind."
-- Byron Nelson"When you miss a shot, never think of what you did wrong. Take the next shot thinking of what you must do right."
-- Tony AlfonsoIf you're constantly tooting your own horn, pick up playing the piano.
INNER ARROGANCE: You're good; you know it, but you don't wear it on your sleeve. You don't have to tell anyone you've got it; They know it. You start to tell them and it usually ends up lip service.
"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson"I am wise because I know nothing."
-- Socrates"Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
-- Lou Holtz"I am one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
-- Helen Keller"Athletes that can't listen, can condition."
-- Chuck Daly"It's very hard to predict where the limits are."
-- Grete Waitz"They can because they think they can."
-- Virgil"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can be achieved."
-- Napoleon Hill"Don't wait for your 'SHIP TO COME IN', and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small."
-- Irene Kassorla"A lot of us try to get to Heaven by backing away from Hell."
-- Mariette HartleyThe person who is constantly tooting his own horn usually has others running to keep out of his way.
If you think that someone else thinks that they are better than you, perhaps it is you who thinks they are better than you.
"Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by your own hands, summed up with the phrase, 'It's no use--I can't do it'."
-- Maxwell Matz"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much as by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and situations do color life, but you have been given the mind to choose what the color should be."
-- John Homer Miller"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."
-- Mary Hemingway"He who angers you conquers you."
-- Sister Elizabeth Kenny"Treat everyone you meet as if they are the most important person in the world -- because they are. If not to you, then to someone; and if not today, then perhaps tomorrow."
-- Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, from 'The Power of Nice'"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
-- Maya Angelou"The more you can dream, the more you can do."
-- Michael KordaVisualize better days ahead.
"I can, therefore I am."
-- Simone WeilAttitude Quotations[Page 1]
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