Quotes
Be 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.
John Wooden
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard if incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Vince Lombardi
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
People talk about discipline, but to me, there's discipline and there's self-discipline. Discipline is listening to people tell you what to do, where to be, and how to do something. Self-discipline is knowing that you are responsible for everything that happens in your life; you are the only one who can take yourself to the desired heights.
Mike Shanahan, Denver Broncos
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something...I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands - this is not optional - my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try and make a difference.
Jimmy Carter
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with the perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies. Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. Hope is the waking mans dream.
Anonymous
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, the man who strives valiantly. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Good luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Darrel Royal
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win.
Paul "Bear" Bryant
Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear.
Pat Riley
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
John Wooden
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start feeling pressure, its because you've started to think about failure.
Tommy Lasorda
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Lou Holtz
Today, you have 100% of your life left.
Tom Landry
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Don Shula
You can learn a line from a win and a book from defeat.
Paul Brown
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Fred Shero
Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden
99% is as good as 0%. If you don't give it all then don't give anything.
Anonymous
To be number one you must train like you're number two. Because if you train like you're number one, you have no place to go.
Maurice Greene
I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.
Anonymous
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Anonymous
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Anonymous
Sweat and sacrifice equals success.
Anonymous
Nobody who ever gave his best effort regretted it.
George Halas
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
John Wooden
Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.
John Wooden
Fall with pride because scars are just physical proof of a memory filled with guts and glory.
Unknown
When in self-doubt, take a moment and envision your life as you would want it to be. Then consider, how YOU and only YOU, could make it even better. This small exercise could just unveil the vast potential which you never thought you had.
Lubna Dawood
A champion shows who he is by what he does.
Evander Holyfield
It takes no talent to give effort.
Unknown
My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
Jack Nicklaus
Commitment is a line you must cross - it is the difference between dreaming and doing.
Bernie Fuchs
To be number one you must train like you're number two. Because if you train like you're number one, you have no place to go.
Maurice Greene
Life is your business, and YOU are the boss.
Jules Benson
A - Action
T - The
T - Terrific
I - Ideal
T - That
U - You
D - Deserve
E - Everything
Simon Taufao
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary
Without failure there can be no success. Failure shows us how to succeed.
Unknown
I was cut from my high school basketball team 4 years in a row because I wasn't good enough. I'm the only one in my high school class who got a scholarship to play basketball in college. 4 failures showed me how to get 1 big success.
Unknown
You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
Joe Namath
Winners are those who attempt to do things right without fear of failure.
Champions are those that fail and get back up to try it again.
Winners are born, champions are made.
David Blanford
A vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat and at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is looking.
Unknown
People have to be given the freedom to show the heart they possess. I think it's a leader's responsibility to provide that type of freedom. And I believe it can be done through relationships and family. Because if a team is a real family, it's members want to show you their hearts.
Coach K
In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved.
Coach K
Visualize a wagon wheel as a complete team. A leader might be the hub of the wheel at the center. Now suppose the spokes are the connecting relationships the leader is building with people on the outer rim of the wheel. If the hub is removed, then the entire wheel collapses. In a situation like that, if a team loses the leader, the entire team collapses.
Coach Mike Krzyzewski
"There is never a right way to do the wrong thing."
Paul Galbenski
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
Phil Jacksoon
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Shaquille O'Neal
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
Michael Jordan
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan
Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.
Shaquille O'Neal
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
Coach K.
Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.
Coach K.
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight
Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
Phil Jackson