“Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.”

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.

I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.

I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. You don’t just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.

I’ve got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I’ll make it extremely hard.

If you can look in your mother’s eyes and she’s proud of you, then you’re a champion.

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

A champion shows who he is by what he does.

I wanted to be a world champion.

Wilder is not a big draw in the U.S. He maybe sells 5,000 to 10,000 tickets when he’s fighting in his own town for the heavyweight champion.

I’m a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don’t care what people think of me. I don’t care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.