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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
Oct 1, 2025
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.
Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do