Sam Peters:
CLASS OF 2012
Stevens Point Area High SchoolClass of 2012
Stevens point, WI
Sam's Story
Sam is from Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Sam's schools include Stevens Point Area High School. Sam works(ed) at Holiday Inn, Shopko.
Music Sam likes includes George Strait, Green Day, Kenny Chesney. Movies Sam likes include The Blind Side, Step Brothers, Dinner for Schmucks. TV shows Sam likes include Scrubs, Psych.
One of Sam's favorite quotes is:""If you aren't hurting yourself you're hurting the team."
"Cowboy Up."
"Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate you will learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has."
"I wrestle with demons of doubt. With my past failures. With my injuries. With that unrelenting voice that tells me to stop. But I am a wrestler, and one thing will always be certain. I will be victorious."
âThe four Dâs of a champion: Desire, Determination,
Dedication, Diligence.â
"The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle."
âLife moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it.â
"You have been getting better since the beginning, so the only one that can stop you now is yourself."
"It is hard to fail, but it is harder to not try to suceed at all."
"The jouney of a thousand miles starts with a single step."
"Better to light one small candle then to curse the world into darkness."
âI know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing.
Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that.
So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.â -Tupac Shakur
"If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.â
-Tupac Shakur
âI'd rather die like a man, than live like a cowardâ -Tupac Shakur
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.â
-John Quincy Adams
"When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I'm gonna prove you wrong."
-Picabo Street
"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."
-Joe Paterno
"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching."
- Anson Dorrance
"When you put on that jersey, the name on the front is more important then the name on the back."
- "Miracle"
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit. ~ Robert Schuller
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
VINCE LOMBARDI
âSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that ...Expand for more
counts.â - Winston Churchill
âYou see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'â - George Bernard Shaw
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
VINCE LOMBARDI
Champions don't quit. -Mike Tyson
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. ~ Conrad Hilton
Fatiuge makes cowards of us all. -Vince Lombardi
If you can't accept losing, you can't win. -Vince Lombardi
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner. -Vince Lombardi
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. -Vince Lombardi
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. -Vince Lombardi
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result. -Vince Lombardi
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. -Vince Lombardi
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. -Vince Lombardi
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. -Vince Lombardi
"Does everything have to be perfect for you to be perfect?" -Jon McGovern
âPractice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.â
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it.â -John Wooden
âBe more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.â
âYou can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.â
âSuccess comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.â
âIt's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.â
âDon't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.â
âThings turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn outâ -John Wooden
âSome people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.â -Michael Jordan
âI've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.â
âI know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.â -Michael Jordan".
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