• 1. 
    “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

  • Rosemary Casals
  • Billie Jean King
  • Martina Navratilova
  • Steffi Graf
  • 2. 
    “Erase the word ‘failure’ from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.”

  • Ashley Miles
  • Shannon Miller
  • Courtney Kupets
  • Mary Lou Retton
  • 3. 
    “We can push ourselves further. We always have more to give.”

  • Brandy Johnson
  • Aly Raisman
  • Simone Biles
  • Gabby Douglas
  • 4. 
    “No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.”

  • Jessica Smith
  • Bonnie Blair
  • Jane Goldman
  • Beth Heiden
  • 5. 
    “When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening any more.”

  • Gail Devers
  • Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Mary Decker Slaney
  • Evelyn Ashford
  • 6. 
    “You can’t always be the best. You have to remember that everyone makes mistakes sometimes.”

  • Leanne Wong
  • Aly Raisman
  • Gabby Douglas
  • Faith Torrez
  • 7. 
    “Overpower. Overtake. Overcome.”

  • Venus Williams
  • Serena Williams
  • Maria Sharapova
  • Tracy Austin
  • 8. 
    “Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.”

  • Hope Solo
  • Mia Hamm
  • Alex Morgan
  • Megan Rapinoe
  • 9. 
    “This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.”

  • Maria Filatova
  • Svetlana Baitova
  • Olga Korbut
  • Nadia Comăneci
  • 10. 
    “The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”

  • Evelyn Ashford
  • Nicole Leach
  • Wilma Rudolph
  • Gail Devers
  • 11. 
    “I’m very task-oriented. The idea of constantly pursuing something with purpose helps me to stay focused.”

  • Jamie Salé
  • Kitty Carruthers
  • Tai Babilonia
  • Tessa Virtue
  • 12. 
    “No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.”

  • Betty Hilton
  • Althea Gibson
  • Marion Jessup
  • Vania King
  • 13. 
    “Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.”

  • Johanna Robbins
  • Milka Duno
  • Katherine Legge
  • Danica Patrick
  • 14. 
    “To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.”

  • Picabo Street
  • Jacqueline Wiles
  • Lindsey Vonn
  • Resi Stiegler
  • 15. 
    “I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.”

  • Debi Thomas
  • Barbara Ann Scott
  • Peggy Fleming
  • Dorothy Hamill
  • 16. 
    “You can always say, ‘I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn’t fall.’ They’re not regrets, just mistakes.”

  • Oksana Baiul
  • Nancy Kerrigan
  • Tara Lipinski
  • Michelle Kwan
  • 17. 
    “When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.”

  • Picabo Street
  • Lindsey Vonn
  • Mikaela Shiffrin
  • Lindy Cochran
  • 18. 
    “I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.”

  • Georgeta Gabor
  • Nadia Comăneci
  • Catalina Ponor
  • Olga Korbut
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