“If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.”

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.

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

Hard work breeds self-respect.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

You have to make shots. That’s the bottom line.

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

Even though your sensitivity feels like a curse, – it can be your greatest blessing too.

When I’m on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It’s a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

I never feel pressure to be a good role model. I always try to do my best to inspire people to be good and do the right thing, but I just can’t live my life always trying to be a good role model.

It’s the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.

I don’t sit around thinking about my titles and roles; I just do what feels right.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.