Courage and Perseverance in Bonnie Blair’s Words

Nothing inspires the young blood than encouraging words of a heroic athlete. For this post, we have gathered some of the most renowned quotes by Bonnie Blair to help you read something different to your kids tonight.

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it’s all on my shoulders and it didn’t have anything to do with anybody else.

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What I’ve learned from my own journey, and from my family’s experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that’s life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn’t in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it’s a blast to watch.

I wasn’t really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I’d say.

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I’ll be satisfied.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you’re serious, and I’ve always liked it.

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Inspiring Quotes for Children to Live an Encouraging Life (Part 2)

We hope you enjoyed our previous posts about inspiring quotes, get ready to devour some more. There are so many great people that have not only inspired us , but have also helped us and our children lead motivated lives. Scroll below to find some amazing, energizing life quotes.

“May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” – Dr. Seuss

“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

“Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theordore Roosevelt

“That best portion of a good man’s life. / His little, nameless, unremembered acts / Of kindness and of love.” – William Wadsworth

“Time’s fun when you’re eating flies.” – Kermit the Frog

“The years teach much the days never know.” – Emerson

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Dr. Seuss

“To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.” – Walt Whitman

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller

The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

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Inspiring Quotes for Children to Live an Encouraging Life

Happy children playing outdoors in spring park

As Isac Newton has said, “if I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants,” we all need giants who can motivate us and encourage to lead on better lives. Children, whether they are in a commercial playground or an academic setting, just like us, need to be encouraged. To help you teach your children how to lead on better lives, we have collected one of the best inspiring quotes from the web.

“We know what we are but know not what we may be.” – Shakespeare

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucious

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Fall down seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“What one can be one must be.” – Unknown

“Life is a gift.”

“Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau

“You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.” – Irish Proverb

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

“Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” – Alice Munro

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” – Edward Everett Hale

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hearts.” – Charles Dickens

“Do a little more than you’re paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.” – Art Linkletter

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” – Emily Dickensen

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined.”  Henry David Thoreau

“It’s good to have an end to journey toward, but it’s the journey that matters in the end.” – Ursula K. LeGuin

“Climb every mountain, Ford every stream, Follow every rainbow, ‘Til you find your dream.” – Sound of Music

“We grow great by dreams.” – Woodrow Wilson

“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you’ll move mountains.” ― Dr. Seuss

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” – Hans Christen Andersen

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.” E.B. White

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.” – T.S. Eliot

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”  – Confucious

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Gender Equality and Feminism Quotes to Teach to Your Kids

Gender equality is a such a big issue in our environment, yes, even the most modern ones. In fact, it would not be wrong to say that we haven’t reached that kind of advancement where women and men would be seen as equal. We, as parents, have a huge responsibility to teach our children about gender equality so they can become better individuals. Here are some of the most powerful quotes about gender equality and feminism that you can teach to your kids.

My kids are not into quotes, how am I suppose to teach them the quotes?

You don’t necessarily have to enforce kids to listen to the quotes, simply discuss them while you play with them on the commercial playground or in the backyard. Children may not grasp the concept of gender equality fully in the begining, but they will eventually. Scroll down to read empowering quotes:

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“Why do people say “grow some balls”? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
― Sheng Wang

“You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn’t doing anyone any favors, least of all you.” – Hilary Clinton

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
― George Carlin

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf

“It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.” – Emma Watson

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman’s daughter. So far we are equal.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.”
― Betty Friedan

“In Somali culture hyper-masculinity is the most desired attribute in men. Femininity signifies softness, a lightness of touch: qualities that are aggressively pressed onto young girls and women. When a woman does not possess feminine traits, it is considered an act of mild social resistance. This applies equally to men who are not overtly masculine but the stakes are considerably amplified. If a Somali man is considered feminine he is deemed weak, helpless, pitiful: The underlying message being that femininity is inherently inferior to masculinity.”
― Diriye Osman

“There cannot be true democracy unless women’s voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country. ”
– Hillary Clinton

“The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.”
― Friedrich Engels

“I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.”
― Iris Murdoch

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Feminist Quotes to Teach to Your Kids

Feminism is everywhere. People are becoming more and more aware of the concept, which has increased the odds of gender equality in our society. Many parents are adopting feminist parenting strategy to raise their children strong feminists and there are a gazillion reasons why you should too. I was playing with my niece in our backyard the other day with our neighbor’s kids. While playing on the outdoor playground equipment one of the kid’s got into a fight with my niece. My niece, the bad blood, prepared for a fight. The other kid jumped in and said something like “She’s a girl, she wouldn’t know how to kick ” to the other kid. This reminded me of Victor Beltran’s sexist remark made on the Master Chef junior:

“My goodness, I’m surrounded by girls, and girls already know how to clean because of genetics.”

I don’t know where that came from, but it certainly does not make me feel good about the way parents approach the subject of gender equality. At the end of the day, it’s the parents’ responsibility to teach kids equality.

Here are the quotes from one of our favorite celebrities about feminisms.

“All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights, the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered — it leads to a better society.” – John Legend

“When you work with the sort of really strong women that I work with, the idea that anyone would want to make decisions for them is hard to wrap your head around.”—Seth Meyers

“I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny.”—Ezra Miller

“[My mother] really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman. And that’s the kind of woman I’ve always surrounded myself with, my friends and particularly my wife, who is not only smarter than and stronger than I am, but occasionally taller too. I think it also goes back to my father and my stepfather, because they prized wit and resolve in the women they were with above all things and they were among the rare men who understood that recognizing someone else’s power doesn’t diminish your own.”— Joss Whedon

“I’m attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.” – Ryan Gosling

“I’m usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women’s bodies are really beginning to piss me off. They’re talking from a bubble. They’re not talking from the street, and they’re not in touch with what’s real.” – Eddie Vedder

“[Y]ou can’t live in this world, obviously, without coming into contact with women. I mean, a woman is my mother, gave me life, gave me sisters. I have a girlfriend I love dearly. All of that comes into play. It’s not about abortion being right or wrong. It’s about having that choice to decide what a person should do with their own body.” – Blair Underwood

“I’m not ashamed to dress ‘like a woman’ because I don’t think it’s shameful to be a woman.” – Iggy Pop

“Women are responsible for two-thirds of the work done worldwide, yet earn only 10 percent of the total income and own 1 percent of the property… So, are we equals? Until the answer is yes, we must never stop asking.” – Daniel Craig

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Dr. Suess’s sayings to Inspire the Younger Minds

It is impossible to find an individual who does not like Dr. Suess or is not aware of Dr. Suess’s work. Dr. Suess has inspired generations of literature enthusiast with his charming yet equally edifying stories that allow children to learn the moral lessons and understand their world better. Below, we have gathered some of the most prominent Dr. Suess quotes that can inspire your youngster’s mind.

It is important to note here that every quote holds a substantial context, which you will need to explain to your kids. Children may not understand the underlying meaning behind every quote, so make sure you discuss the meaning of each and every quote with your child. In addition, if you remember the stories that the quotes are from, you can also give children a little background of the story to make things more interesting for them.

“Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.”

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”

“I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, But down here at the bottom, we, too, should have rights.”

“I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am.”

“We looked! Then we saw him. Step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat!”

“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.”

“So, on beyond Z! It’s high time you were shown. That you really don’t know. All there is to be known.”

“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”

“You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not!”

“Day Play. We play all day. Night Fight. We fight all night.”

“Just go. Go. Go! I don’t care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow.”

“You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in!”

“Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.”

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

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Inspiring Quotes about Kids for Parents, Especially New Parents

Parenting is not an easy road to travel through, especially those people who just stepped into parenthood. For new parents, parenthood can be a pretty demanding task; new baby can bring a lot of challenges for new parents, which can sometimes get pretty tiring. So to inspire you to be patient with the parenting activities, we have gathered the most inspiring quotes from the internet to get your spirits up. Scroll below to find more.

1. We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

2. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

3. Children make your life important. ~Erma Bombeck

4. In a dark moment I ask, “How can anyone bring a child into this world?” And the answer rings clear, “Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it.” ~Robert Brault

5. I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. ~Liz Armbruster

6. A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often. ~Author Unknown

7. We’ve had bad luck with our kids — they’ve all grown up. ~Christopher Morley

8. A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown

9. Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Hulbert

10. Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. ~William Stafford

11. The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. ~Robert Brault

12. Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood 

13. Children are one third of our population and all of our future. Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health

14. Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ~Fran Lebowitz

15. Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~Rabindranath Tagore

16. You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

17. If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ~Pearl S. Buck

18. Children make you want to start life over. ~Muhammad Ali

19. A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. In America, there are two classes of travel — first class, and with children. ~Robert Benchley

21. The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four — of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

22. Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. ~François de La Rochefoucauld

23. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another, they are not cute. They are life-sized. ~Margaret Atwood

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Albert Einstein Quotes that You Need to Teach Your Kids

Einstein is one of the biggest influential personality that has inspired a generation of scientists. There is no better way to fuel your child’s creativity than to read him inspirational quotes from Einstien’s life. Below are some of the best quotes collected from the internet for your child’s encouragement. Scroll down to read.

1. “One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.“

2. “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.“ (Sign hanging in Einstein’s office at Princeton)

3. “Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”

4. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

5. “A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

6. “The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”

7. “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

8. “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

9. “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”

10. “Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”

11. “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”

12. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

13. “Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”

14. “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

15. “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

16. “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”

17. “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

18. “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”

19. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

20. “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”

21. “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

22. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

23. “In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.”

24. “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.“

25. “Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”

26. “Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism; how passionately I hate them!”

27. “No, this trick won’t work. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”

28. “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”

29. “Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.”

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Creativity Quotes to Teach Your Kids for an Inspirational Boost

Creativity is the only component of the human mind that cannot be produced through healthy nutrition; it can only be inspired. So for this post, I thought I will accumulate some of the most inspirational quotes about life that you can teach to your kids. This is a great way to edify your kids about

1. I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I’d rather be doing something I wanted to do. I’d walk it again. Georgia O’Keefe

2. What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.  Audrey Flack

3. No one travels so high as he who knows not where he is going. Oliver Cromwell

4. Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. Madeline L’Engle

5. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. Edward de Bono

6. When you unleash your creativity, a whole new world opens at your feet. The sun becomes brighter and the birds sing louder. Like a child running free at recess, you laugh, run, and explore, thrilled to be alive.  Tess Marshall

7. Imagination is more important than knowledge.  Albert Einstein

8. In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.  E.M. Forster

9. No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.  John Cassavetes

10. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung

11. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. George Lois

12. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.  Joseph Chilton Pearce

13. Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.  Norman Podhoretz

14. When You Dance Your Dance, When You Fully Immerse Yourself In The Energy Of The Moment And Let Your Passion Course Through You, You Inspire Others – Not To Learn Your Dance Moves Or To Follow You, But To Dance Their Own Dance. That’s How You Truly Inspire Others.  Melody Fletcher

15. Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know.  Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. George Kneller

16. Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.”   James Bertrand

17. When it is working, you completely go into another place, you’re tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That’s what it’s all about.  Keith Haring

18. The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.  Pablo Casals    

19. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.  Rumi

20. A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.  Frank Capra

21. An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin Land

22. And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath

23. A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. Wentworth Miller

24. Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. Herbie  Hancock

So what do you think, inspired yet? Share your opinion with us through our comment section below and let us know of your favorite Creativity Quotes.

24 Best Sports Quotes for Sports Enthusiast Children

Do your children love sports? Are they crazy about Derek Jeeter or David Beckham? Well, most children generally are enthusiastic about sports activities and outdoor playground equipment. So in this post, I have gathered some encouraging sports quotes that yoru kids will just love. So here we go:

1. “Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.”– William James

2. “Good is not good when better is expected.”– Vin Scully

3. “You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.”– Herb Brooks

4. “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

5. “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.”– Matt Biondi

6. “Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.”– George F. Will

7. “The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”– Steve Young

8. “The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.”– John Madden

9. “You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.”– Arthur Ashe

10. “What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”– Andre Agassi

11. “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”– Pele

12. “One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. ”– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

13. “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”– George Halas

14. “Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.”– Cal Ripken Jr.

15. “You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.”– Chris Evert

16. “When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less.”– Paul Brown

17. “The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.”– Eddie Reese

18. “During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.”– Mickey Mantle

19. “I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind.”– Peyton Manning

20. “Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you.”– Eddie Robinson

21. “You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.”– J. Askenberg

22. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”– Arnold Palmer

23. “To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.”– Picabo Street

24. “You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave–win or lose.”– Gordie Howe

Encourage your kids about sports through these mind-enriching quotes and support their passion for sports.