Mary Ellen Clark quotes

“When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.”
-- Mary Ellen Clark

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“One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.”

Source : "Strategy and Conscience" by Anatol Rapoport, Harper & Row, (p. 195), 1964.

“A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes”

“Behind every champion is a team that prepared him to become that champion.”

“I'm not going to say that I'm the best, we respect our champions. Floyd's been doing this a lot longer than me, he's been a lot of mega fights and I won't dare say that I'm better than Floyd Mayweather.”

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”

“I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.”

“If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”

“Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.”

“Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.”

Source : "Ripken Shares 'Eight Elements of Perseverance'". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 14, 2008.

“Have I done more for some today ? Than some have done for me ? If a person can answer yes at the end of a day, then that person has had a good day.”