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Squash Player Inspirational Quotes (54)

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There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.
Victor Niederhoffer
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It is inconceivable that anyone will divulge a truly effective get-rich scheme for the price of a book. There is ample opportunity to use wealth in this world, and neither I nor my friends, nor anyone else I have ever met, has so much of it that they are interested in putting themselves at a disadvantage by sharing their secrets.
Victor Niederhoffer
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It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1.
Stefan Edberg
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I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.
Stefan Edberg
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I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.
Stefan Edberg
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For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique.
Stefan Edberg
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The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.
Bunker Roy
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Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.
Jahangir Khan
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There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.
Diana Nyad
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I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.
Diana Nyad
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A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.
Diana Nyad
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I'll play as long as I'm still willing to work this much, to do all these sacrifices
Stefan Edberg
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I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.
Stefan Edberg
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If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn't matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you're exhausted every night and you say, 'Whoa, I just couldn't have done any more with that day.'
Diana Nyad
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Success does not come all at once even for masters it comes in stages, separated by years.
Victor Niederhoffer
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When you achieve your Dreams It's not so much what you get, It's who you become.
Diana Nyad
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I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.
Stefan Edberg
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Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.
Dick Pound
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This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.
Diana Nyad
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The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us
Diana Nyad
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I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.
Stefan Edberg
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I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.
Jahangir Khan
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I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.
Diana Nyad
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Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.
Victor Niederhoffer
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