“Achieving excellence is a choice. There are no elevators to achieving success or excellence. We must use the staircase. We want to give the youth this choice again. We want to encourage the youth to work towards a goal in life and to achieve it through perseverance, hard work and with the right attitude!”
Elana Meyer, JAG Sports and Education Foundation
“Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport is about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks”.
Sir Roger Bannister
“The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare”.
Juma Ikangaa, Tanzania
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man”.
George Bernard Shaw
“Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage”
George Patton
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime”.
“To succeed…You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you”.