“Effort is between you and you.”

Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.

There’s some things you can cover up. And there’s some things you can’t.

In any war who pulls their general out? No one.

I wasn’t the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it’s damn near impossible to turn this around.

I don’t know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.

I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart.

Everything I got, I’m willing to sacrifice.

I’ve got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?

You don’t have to win it, just don’t lose it.

You have to be honest about who you are.

Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.

One of the things I’ve always said is that if you’re given the ability to coach kids, then you’re really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

It’s nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.

Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.

When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran’s nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.