“If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.”

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.

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

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.

Whatever you fear most has no power–it is your fear that has the power.