“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.”

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.

Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.

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.

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.

You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over.

It doesn’t matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.