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If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.
Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.
God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.
Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.
A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.
I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.
It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.
The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.
To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.