{"quotes":[{"text":"The story of John Ritter illustrates what it means to be a hero and how we treat our heroes. When we idealize real people they lose their humanity. They are turned into idols that we worship and may later want to destroy. Heroes are transformed from conscious-feeling fellow homo sapiens into characters in our stories. The greatest hero-characters will become legends or even mythic characters. We might think we know them, but when they are idolized they become more like treasured memories, existing in our minds as archetypal characters, rather than living-breathing human beings with thoughts and feelings of their own.","author":"Jeff Rasley","tags":["heroes","heroism","inspirational","sports-biography","sports-inspirational"],"id":20134,"author_id":"Jeff+Rasley"},{"text":"Step up your game and success will step up to you.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["athlete","challenges","coach","coaching","compete","competition","failure","game","life-lesson","life-lessons","motivation","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-runners","motivational-for-women","overcome-adversity","overcome-challenges","overcome","overcomer","overcoming-failure","overcoming-fear","overcoming","sports-inspirational","sports","step-up","success","victory"],"id":21885,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Life is game. Never fear to play the game.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["brave-men-and-women","brave-new-world","courage","doubt","fear","fearless","games","inspirational","life-and-living","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","motivational","personal-growth","self-determination","self-esteem","self-help","self-realization","sports-inspirational","sports","wisdom","wise","wise-words"],"id":31209,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"It's because you absolutely love the sport.","author":"Nastia Liukin","tags":["gymnastics","sports","sports-inspirational","sportsmanship"],"id":67021,"author_id":"Nastia+Liukin"},{"text":"The sunrise was the most amazing part of the day. The quiet of the block seemed even more silent when I watched the light make its way effortlessly into the world. Its serenity bathed itself in the rose colored light above bleeding into the sky. The road was vulnerable. The pink and the orange seeped onto the street and lit up my path, just for me. I saw it in front of my feet and it pulled me forward, my footsteps hitting the gravel. I wanted to run into it, to dive feet first and plunge into the harmony of my safe haven. It serenaded me into a calm sense of security. A calm idea that everything was just the way it was supposed to, and everything else, would always get better. Siempre mejorando.","author":"Adriana Rodrigues","tags":["running","spanish","sport","sports-inspirational"],"id":101578,"author_id":"Adriana+Rodrigues"},{"text":"Sport should be in your Blood/Veins, Not in the Joints or Bones.","author":"Binoy Boban","tags":["inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspirational-living","inspirational","sports-inspirational","sports","sports-related","sportsmanship"],"id":105484,"author_id":"Binoy+Boban"},{"text":"If records refuse to be broken, shatter them.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["athlete","breaking-records","brilliance","change-the-world","creativity","doing-the-impossible","dream","excellence","fight","genius","greatness","impossible","ingenuity","innovation","leader","leadership","make-an-impact","motivation","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-runners","motivational-for-women","moving-mountains","perseverance","resilience","shattering-records","sports-inspirational","sports","success","victory","walking-on-water","work-ethic","work","work"],"id":134731,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["business","courage","entertainment-industry","failure","failure","inspiring","learning","lessons-learnt","life-lessons","motivational","persistence","persistence","quotes","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","sports-inspirational","sports","success","success","triumph"],"id":154810,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally - as a human being.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["career-development","coaching","confidence","confidence","inspiration","inspirational","leadership","leadership-development","life-balance","life-balance","motivation","motivational","people-development","performance-management","performance-management-training","personal-development","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","sport","sports-inspirational","staff-development","team","teamwork","understanding-oneself-and-others","understanding-others","understanding"],"id":155772,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"You stop accepting yourself and stop connecting three realms of the triangle of awareness within you. You fail to realize that this is mistaken notion that 'a lighter you is a happier you' isn't making you happier at all.","author":"Scott Abel","tags":["fitness","mindset","sports-inspirational"],"id":182546,"author_id":"Scott+Abel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}