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QUOTES

SUCCESS COMES IN

NOT IN CANNOTS
John Ralston. NFL coach

RECENT QUOTES FROM BCA's CHEER LEADER MAGAZINE

There are no easy answers, nor an instant recipe for becoming a successful Cheerleader. Having the positive attitude and determination to make the most of every opportunity, and to create such opportunities, is the only way.  Success is being the best you can be, making full use of your talents, and enjoying what you do. Have confidence, for this enables you to perform up to your capabilities. It gives you the freedom to perform without the fear of failure and without holding back.


The answer to three questions will determine your success or failure.
1> can people trust me to do my best?.
2> Am I committed to the task in hand?.
3> Do I care about other people and show it?
If the answers to all three questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

Lou Holtz. American football coach

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.
Bryan Moseley

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
David Seabury

It's not one thing we do 100% better than anyone else, but 100 things we do 1% better than everyone else.
London O's Game Programme

You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures
Charles C. Noble. American civil engineer

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it
Gale Sawers. NFL Halfback

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fate and captain of your soul.

The most important thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else - it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work needed to achieve success. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.
Peggy Fleming Jenkins. Olympic Gold Medal figure skater.

It's not the glitz of the uniform that matters, but the spirit that shines within it.

Have fun doing whatever it is that you desire to accomplish. Learn it one step at a time, emphasising the fundamentals, and do it because you love it, not because it's work.
Paul Westphal. NBA guard

I believe everything begins with a positive idea. Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything you mention. The mind is your most powerful muscle.
Ron Jaworski. NFL Quarterback.

Success in dealing with crowds rests upon the art of getting believed in
Ivy Lee

We control by attitudes - positive mental attitudes - not by rules.
Woody Hayes. American football coach

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than others expect of you. Never excuse yourself, and be lenient to everybody else.
Henry Ward Beecher. American Clergyman

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.   Wisdom is not putting them in a fruit salad.
Anon

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The dictionary is the only place success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must all pay for success.
Vince Lombardi. NFL coach

Real difficulties can be overcome, it's only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vial

It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.
Jack Nicklaus. Pro golfer

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
Don Zimmer. Major league manager

Is there a Heaven?  Oh yeah, It's the place where dreams come true.
Movie 'Field of Dreams'

It's amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
Blanton Collier. NFL coach.

To be well respected you must first be respectful to others.
Julie Burnett

The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.
Henry Clay. American Statesman

Winter must be long for those without warm memories.
Movie 'Sleepless in Seattle'

Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, whilst others stay awake and do them.

The spirit to win and the will to succeed are measured one stunt at a time.

Simply because you don't charge across goal lines or hit home runs or slam dunk basketballs, doesn't mean you can't change the score.
NIKE advert

Enthusiasm is like a ripple on water, it spreads.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everybody else up
Mark Twain

A good cheerleader is not measured by the height of her jumps but the span of her spirit.

The difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary is the little extra.

The race for excellence has no finish line

Being professional is not being paid for doing what you love, it is doing what you love with Class.

Wisdom comes not from knowing the answers, but in realising how many questions remain

The person who gets ahead is the one who does more than is necessary, and keeps on doing it.

Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success.

Attitude is the little things that make a big difference

Success is a journey, not a destination

Without a conductor there is no orchestra.  Without Cheerleaders it's only a game.

No one can predict to what heights you can soar.  Even you will not know until you spread your wings

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm

Leaders are like eagles.  They don't flock, you find them one at a time

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart.  - Pursue these

Coming together is a beginning.  Keeping together is progress.  Working together is success.

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to loose sight of the shore.

Don't wait for your ship to come in.  Swim out to it.

Ambition is rated by what you finish, not what you start

Of all the things you wear your expression is the most important.

If you don't enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with more?

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.  Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

You never get a second chance to create a first impression.

The race is not always to the swift, but those who keep on running.

There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty

You will always miss 100% of the shots you don't take

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you fail to focus on your goals.

Any man can hold a girls hand, but only the elite can hold her feet.
T-shirt slogan

To be a winner...  all you need to give is all you have

Persistence prevails when all else fails.

Wisdom comes not from knowing the answers, but in realising how many questions remain.

We cannot adjust the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Opportunity always involves some risk.  You cannot steal second base and keep your foot on first.

If you don't enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with more?

If it's up to be, then it's up to me.

The sky's the limit - when your heart's in it.

In life what sometimes appears to be the end is really a new beginning.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way Coach showed you.

Don't follow where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile creations, but just look what they can do when they stick together.

If you have tried your hand at something and failed, next time try your head.

The key to happiness is having dreams.  The key to success is making dreams come true.

When happiness gets into your system it is bound to break out on your face.

We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence is thus not an act, but a habit.

What the world needs is fewer rules, and more good examples.

Success:  To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judge each day, not by the harvest, but by the seeds you plant.

Keep your ideals high enough to inspire you, and low enough to encourage you.

I would rather have three minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.
Steel Magnolias

Cheer-ability is a talent for deciding something quickly and getting everyone in the stadium doing it.

What the world needs is fewer rules and more good examples.

A friend is someone who is always afraid of letting you down, but never does.

A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.


THE WORLD: (definition):
An 8000 mile blue/green Show Pom with 2 billion strands all united at the centre.

PLAYERS: (definition):
A vital part of any sports event, they entertain the crowd in the intervals between timeouts so that Cheerleaders can take a well earned break.

CHEERLEADING COMPETITION: (definition):
A sports event consisting entirely of 3 minute timeouts



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