If you follow us on Twitter you’ll notice that we regularly post quotes from professional athletes and coaches. While that awful, cheesy song from Savage Garden may come to mind, a lot of affirmations can be quite profound and inspiring, and can give you that added motivation to pursue your goals. Below are the best of the bunch from this year. Pick one or two, print them out and stick it above your bathroom mirror. You never know, it may start you off each day in an empowered way.
20 - "The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it." - Erin Gray
19 - "The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition." - Nick Seitz
18 - "Practice as if you are the WORST, play as if you are the BEST." – Anonymous
17 - "Fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity." – JFK
16 - "When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
15 - "Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision." - Bernhard Langer
14 - "Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart & expect it to come true." - Joe Montana
13 - "Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way." - Satchel Paige
12 - "If you do what you've always done, then you'll get what you've always gotten" -Tony Robbins
11 - "When you're good at something you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something - they'll tell you" - Walter Payton
10 - "You can easily judge the character of a person by how they treat those who can do nothing for them." - James D. Miles
9 - "We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
8 - "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." - Anonymous
7 - "If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals." - Lou Holtz
6 - "It's repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. Once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." - Muhammad Ali
5 - "Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness." - Earl of Derby
4 - "The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking." - Mia Hamm
3 - "They sleep, we grind. They dream, we shine"
2 - “I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.” Seve Ballesteros
and our completely biased favourite!...
1 - "Opportunity doesn't knock, you kick its f***ing door in!" – Team BOMB
Kevin & Victoria
20 - "The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it." - Erin Gray
19 - "The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition." - Nick Seitz
18 - "Practice as if you are the WORST, play as if you are the BEST." – Anonymous
17 - "Fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity." – JFK
16 - "When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
15 - "Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision." - Bernhard Langer
14 - "Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart & expect it to come true." - Joe Montana
13 - "Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way." - Satchel Paige
12 - "If you do what you've always done, then you'll get what you've always gotten" -Tony Robbins
11 - "When you're good at something you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something - they'll tell you" - Walter Payton
10 - "You can easily judge the character of a person by how they treat those who can do nothing for them." - James D. Miles
9 - "We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
8 - "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." - Anonymous
7 - "If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals." - Lou Holtz
6 - "It's repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. Once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." - Muhammad Ali
5 - "Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness." - Earl of Derby
4 - "The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking." - Mia Hamm
3 - "They sleep, we grind. They dream, we shine"
2 - “I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.” Seve Ballesteros
and our completely biased favourite!...
1 - "Opportunity doesn't knock, you kick its f***ing door in!" – Team BOMB
Kevin & Victoria
