Your Celebrated Life!

Falling in life is inevitable – staying down is optional. ~Carrie Johnson

When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football. ~Author Unknown

When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on. ~LL Cool J

Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make!!

I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into better shape. ~Charles Dickens

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~Winnie the Pooh

You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong, you lack empathy, not religion.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G Ingersoll

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself. ~Plato

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning by taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. ~Pierre de Coubertin (founder of modern olympic games)

You’ve got to look for tough competition. You’ve got to want to beat the best. ~Grete Waitz (Norwegian Marathon Runner 1 Gold, 1 Silver)

Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle! ~Sanya Richards Ross (Track and Field, 4 Gold medals)

It’s all about the journey, not the outcome. ~Carl Lewis (Track & Field, 9 Gold medals!)

Never put an age limit on your dreams. ~Dara Torres (Olympic Swimmer, 12 Medals!)

Without passion, you won’t do something 100 percent. That’s the bottom line. ~Apolo Ohno (Speed Skating 2 Gold, 2 Silver, 6 Bronze!)

Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before. ~Bonnie Blair

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: the potential for greatness lives within each of us. ~Wilma Rudolph (Track start 3 Gold Medals and world records, had polio and leg brace as a child, amazing!)

If you fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail. ~Mark Spitz (One of greatest swimmers 11 Olympic Medals, 9 Gold)

Don’t run from a challenge. Instead run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. ~Nadia Comineci (Gymnast 5 time gold medalist, and several perfect 10 scores)

The ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows. ~Olga Korbut

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self discipline, and effort. ~Jesse Owens (Track & Field, 1936 Olympics, First to win 4 Gold medals at a single Olympics)

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. ~Michael Phelps, what a swimmer💙 (The most decorated Olympian of all time! 28 medals, 23 of them GOLD!!)

I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. ~Mia Hamm (Double Olympic Champion, Soccer)

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ~Michael Jordan 2 Olympic Gold Medals!!! And an incredible life of basketball success🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ~Winston Churchill

Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you. ~Hillary Clinton

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated. ~Peace Pilgrim

I’m shell-ebrating Taco Tuesday in full tortilla fashion!!

I think time wounds all heels. ~John Lennon

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Unknown