Nancy Lopez Quotes

You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

The day I go out there and don't want to win is the day I will give up.

I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.

Nothing was ever handed to me. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can, too.

After every fight, I knock myself down. I start from scratch again. I say, 'I'm not as good as I thought.' It makes you work harder. It makes you push harder. It's more than money. It's more than the title. It's my pride, and it can be scary thinking about it. I could lose. It's scary.

Never give up, because at the end of it all we all trying to win.

We don't always get our respect but you've got to deal with it and go out there every week and just win football games.

Personally, I don't let my head go down; I just keep working hard.

I take every rep personally. If somebody beats me, I'm going to take that personally.

I love when people tell me that I was gonna be a bust. I enjoy when people tell me, 'You suck. You can't dribble. You can't shoot,' because it's like, gotta go to the gym.

I'm a competitor. I'm going to compete each and every day to get better.

I was never taught to lose or take losing.

My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous, but I will always come back for you. You can't beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you, but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.

When I hear people boo, that just makes me want to go out there and work harder.

I've always been very driven and knew that to get where I wanted to go, I could never give up.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.