“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

-Michelangelo

“All of the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”

-Chuck Close

“It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.”

-Mia Hamm

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”

-Georgia O’Keeffe

“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”

-Alberto Giacometti

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”

-Pablo Picasso

“Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.”

-Pele

“You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit.”

-Abby Wambach

“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

-Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is anything you can get away with.”

-Andy Warhol

“The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.”

-John Madden

“The only way to prove you’re a good sport is to lose.”

-Ernie Banks

“The great artist is the simplifier.”

-Vincent van Gogh

“If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.”

-Babe Ruth

“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”

-Jackie Robinson

“For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.”

-Mary Lou Retton

“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”

-George Halas

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

-Babe Ruth

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”

-James McNeill Whistler

“The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.”

-Vincent van Gogh

“No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up.”

-Kyrie Irving

“Respect is based on success and you only get that through hard work.”

-Alexander Zverev

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”

-Vincent van Gogh

“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke”

-Jerzy Kosinski

“I am not talented. I am obsessed.”

-Conor McGregor