“If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”

While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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.

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.

A bitter truth: some people are comfortable with your acceptance of their abuse.⁣

Acceptance breeds self-love.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

Loneliness is still inevitable, it must be accepted as a part of yourself.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

We’re a creation of words, constantly looking for acceptance in places we don’t belong.