“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 "I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better than you ever have. We always say at our gym, 'If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.' I think going into any competition, I'm always thinking of myself and not paying attention to others. I don't feel any different from the first day I started. I love what I do and I don't let anything affect me." - Shawn Johnson “If you’re having fun, that’s really all that matters. You can still do everything and still be successful. You can do anything and everything. One of the biggest things I’ve learned over last four years is that anything’s possible. I’ve had some pretty lofty dreams in my head. Those dreams and those goals are going to stay until they’re accomplished. It’s not going to be easy getting there, there are going to be some bumps in the road here and there, but everyone has bumps in the road and it depends how you get over them.” –Michael Phelps "A real player is somebody who never gives up, who keeps thinking all the way through, who's scared, (darn) right, but plays through being scared." –Ralph Wiley (Sportswriter) “When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.” -Katarina Witt
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