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

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.

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.

Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.

You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.

The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.

There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.

Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

In true love, you attain freedom.

Hope is not utopian and peace is a good that can always be attained.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.