“Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. Working from dawn till dust just to feed their young. There is no pressure in football”- Jose Mourinho

“Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.”

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”
Babe Ruth quote

“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.”
Mia Hamm quote

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
Michael Jordan quote

“When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.”
Patanjali quote

Vince Lombardi
1913-1970, Hall of Fame Football Coach

But remember, you have to work really hard to get to the ‘winners’ positions, you will have tasted failure on a number of occasions – the trick is to bounce back from these defeats, keep moving forwards and upwards. You’ll be a winner if you want it bad enough!

Here’s a few quotes that I found while researching….

“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.” – Robert Collier

“People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life’s circumstances to push them down and hold them under.” (Not sure who wrote this one!)

Or this one…“Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.”

“The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer… He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.” -  Robert L. Schwartz

Lance Armstrong
Cancer Survivor and Athlete

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” ~ Sven Goran Eriksson

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” ~ Colin Powell

I have not failed.  I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.  ~ Thomas Edison

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again.  You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.  ~ Mary Pickford

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.     ~ Robert Schuller

One fails forward toward success.  ~ Charles F. Kettering

So the thing is, you don’t pack in at the first sign of failure. You get back up, dust yourself down and start at it again. Fail yourself forward!