“When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’”

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

Hard work breeds self-respect.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

You deserve the love that stays with you like the childhood poem you still remember by heart.

I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.

Since childhood, I have wanted to become Miss Universe India, and I did. I am so grateful to God for that.

From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.

The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.

I let go of childhood fears. I am a secure, empowered human being.

Since childhood, I was ingrained into sports. It plays an important part in my life.

You’re a patched tapestry, of deep childhood trauma’s, and unkept promises.