“Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind-you could call it character in action.”

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.

There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.

Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent’s strength.

I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.

Sometimes when you’re playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That’s much more interesting to me, rather than just playing ‘intense.’ I find it too boring.

Anger tears me up inside, My own, or anyone else’s.

I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.

I’m not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?

I don’t think I’m like any of the characters I’ve played. They’re all really far from who I am.

I’m one of the most humble people you’ll probably ever meet.

My most serious character flaw is that I don’t deny myself much.

To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.