“Your goal as a leader isn’t to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.”

You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Discipline – Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday’s hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can’t build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

Make personal growth a daily priority.

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.

The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn’t stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

You were only a goalkeeper.

You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.

I’ve always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic.

There’s nothing wrong with having your goals really high and trying to achieve them. That’s the fun part. You may come up short. I’ve come up short on a lot on my goals, but it’s always fun to try and achieve them.