“A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.”

You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.

I mean, we’re always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.

Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.

Success is a project that’s always under construction.

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.

You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

We have a lot of freedom to express ourselves. When you see us playing on the field, I guess you can make that out. This batting unit, especially, is fearless. We want to go out there and achieve the best possible result.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

I feel we have achieved the goals that we set out to achieve.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I don’t think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don’t take the shot.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you’re not failing, you’re probably not really moving forward.