“Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.”

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

There is no substitute for work.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

You defeat defeatism with confidence.

Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.

I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

The pearls on her wrist, giving out the green light of emerald nurturing, sparks the flame of life in his eyes.

Poetry is a feeling, a feeling of healing.

I am more stretch marks than the skin, more growth than shame.

Some memories never leave you, some moments never fade away, sometimes the trauma is persistent even if all your scars have healed.

To be healed by sunlight is the most divine miracle of all.

When you honor your emotions you are honoring your healing and growth.

From here I forgive you for how you held me with your hands but mostly I forgive myself for how I let you.

My heart is my muse my blood is my ink my pain is my pen my words are my healing.