“Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.”

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.

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.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Being named among the best is special and beautiful.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

Love can sometimes achieve the impossible.

Love can sometimes achieve the impossible.