1. “Well, we knocked the bastard off!” – Sir Edmund Hillary, just after ascending Mount Everest

2. “Drink a little wine before dinner and you’ll play for years.” – Ty Cobb to Stan Musial

3. “Being Responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” – Colin Powell

4. “Many are called but few get up.” – Oliver Herford

5. “I prayed for 20 years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” – Frederick Douglass, escaped slave

6. “If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes really good, you did it. that’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.” – Paul “Bear” Bryant

7. “Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.” – Wyatt Earp

8. “It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

9. “You tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, don’t try.” – Homer Simpson

10. “Most games are lost, not won.” – Casey Stengel

11. “No one has yet calculated how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.” – Athenaeus, circa AD 200

12. “Probe with bayonets. If you encounter steel, withdraw. If you encounter mush, continue.” – Vladimir Lenin

13. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

14. “If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.” – George Brett

15. “My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty

16. “Coaches who can outline plays on a blackboard are a dime a dozen. the ones who win get inside their players and motivate.” – Vince Lombardi

17. “I feel sorry for someone who has to win at everything.” – Snoopy

18. “If A equals success, then the formula is A = X+Y+Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut.” – Albert Einstein

19. “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” – Thomas Jefferson

20. “We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks…We are advancing constantly, and we are not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy’s balls. We are going to twist his balls and kicke the living shit out of him…” – General George Patton to his troops, just before D Day

21. “Retreat, hell! We just got here!” – Capt. Lloyd Williams, USMC, on the first day of the battle for Belleau Wood in World War I. Williams was killed; the battle was won.

As from Men’s Health, September 2003