Jesse Owens Quotes

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

Everyone is committed to giving their best and to putting in 100 percent in every match to win.

I just concentrate on my performance and the football.

Soccer was probably the most fun game I've played because I never walked away feeling like I had a bad game. If you play a position in soccer where you can out-hustle or out-work or out-prepare somebody, it is a lot easier to walk away from the game and say, I gave it my all. I could always try. I could always hustle.

I'm going to try to go out and do my best, and I'm going to try and compete every play.

Football is one of the most popular sports in the country, and there are many reasons for this. You can take so much from football and apply it to life in general. Just some of those things are goal-setting, preparation, teamwork, perseverance and discipline.

If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

Sports are a metaphor for life.

Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.

Anyone who makes an effort at whatever they hope to accomplish can, and will, seriously improve their chances of succeeding.

The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.