Zak Kustok famous quotes

If you don't think like a winner, you're not going to be a winner.
-- Zak Kustok

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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.

Life is what you make it so make the best of it.

No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.