“If you really want something , you can have it if you’re willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.”

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.

If you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.

Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.

You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.

The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.

The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can’t afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.

I’m like, ‘Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I’m OK with who I am and I’m happy with who I am?’

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn’t afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po’.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don’t think politicians can afford to be complacent.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.