“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”

-Gail Devers

One of the great lessons I’ve learned in athletics is that you’ve got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you’ve got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

Bob Richards – Pole Vaulter

After years of competing and coaching, I know that every defeat is a lesson for eventual victory.

Sammy Lee – Diver

Even to lose, I think I’d still compete. No matter how it goes or how I go, I wouldn’t change anything. It fulfills me to be able to compete. I never worry about winning or losing because when you compete, you are already a winner.

- Daley Thompson – Olympian Decathlete