“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

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.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught and risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.