Quotes

"The harder you work...the more fun you will have" - Eldon Marshall

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden, College Basketball Coach

"The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win". - Bobby Knight, College Basketball Coach

"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden, College Basketball Coach

"Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating". - Barbara Sher

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do" - Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong person stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself or herself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he or she fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his or her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Never give up. Never. Never. Never." - Winston Churchill

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedy do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." - George Herman "Babe" Ruth"

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail - Ralph Waldo Emerson

One who makes no mistakes never makes anything." - Anonymous

"We're not here to please anybody but ourselves. We're here to win games. And we'll do it our way. That's all we're trying to do. Here's what bothers me: (If) we don't play to our capabilities. We just have one speed, and that's full speed. And our objective as players and coaches is to get it out of ourselves every time we're on the football field. Give all that there is to give. And if we can achieve that, then you have no regrets about anything." - Mike Martz, St. Louis Rams Football Coach