“Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.”

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

What is right is more important than who is right.

I think that in any group activity – whether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.

Ability is a poor man’s wealth.