Welcome to Coach Dwyer's Compilation of Quotes
Be POSITIVE in everything you do today! Coach Dwyer
Be Humble & Hungry!
Humble to:
Learn from Others
Improve Every Day
Hungry to:
Live with Passion
Work Harder than Everyone Else
Remember, the best are always striving to get better and make others better too.
- Jon Gordon | @jongordon11
John Wooden didn't win his first national title until his 16th season at UCLA.
Starbucks didn’t reach store #5 until 13 years into its history.
Sam Walton (Walmart) didn’t open his 2nd store until 7 yrs after starting his company.
Be persistent. Success takes time.
• Jon Gordon | @jongordon11
Being positive doesn’t mean you walk around with rose colored glasses. It means you overcome the thorns.
• Jon Gordon | @jongordon11
Anything worthwhile takes time to build. We all want success now, but that's not how success works. After all, if we had immediate success, we wouldn’t build the character we need to to sustain true success. The struggle, adversity, triumphs, and victories are all part of the building process, and we must embrace all of it.
• From page 94 of "The Carpenter" book by Jon Gordon
• Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
• Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
2 Truths to Remember This Week:
Failure is not meant to define you, it’s meant to refine you. Sometimes you have to lose a goal to find your destiny.
Ignore the critics. Show up and do the work. You are here for a reason. You have a purpose and you are meant to share it.
• Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Be humble and hungry!Focus on your strengths and what matters most.Tune out distractions.See life and people as teachers you can learn from each day.Help others get better!Care more. Put more time, effort, and passion into your work/life.
• Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Replace "I think" with "I will."
I WILL have a good day today!
Small choices can make a big impact. Live intentionally with a positive expectation today!
2 Truths to Remember This Week:
Failure is not meant to define you, it’s meant to refine you. Sometimes you have to lose a goal to find your destiny.
Ignore the critics. Show up and do the work. You are here for a reason. You have a purpose and you are meant to share it.
• Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Three things you control every day are your ATTITUDE, your EFFORT and your ACTIONS.
It doesn’t matter what others are doing or who you think is being unfair. Every day you can focus on being positive, working hard and making others around you better.
• Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
If you have a dream, pursue it.
If you have a passion, live it.
If you face a challenge, conquer it.
And do it all with optimism and faith!
Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
One of the things that holds many of us back, as individuals and teams, is comparing ourselves to others. It's a trap. It causes us to focus on someone else's gifts, talents and purpose versus our own. Focus on being the best YOU that only YOU can be.
• Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
You will never rise above the level of your belief! What you believe determines what you create. Believe bigger today. Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Successful people discover what they are good at. Successful leaders discover what OTHERS are good at.
• John C. Maxwell / @thejohncmaxwell Look for and bring out the good in others today!
You will never rise above the level of your belief! What you believe determines what you create. Believe bigger today. Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
A leader is a dealer of hope. Be a champion of what's possible today... inspire others to keep going, share a positive vision for the road ahead... most of all believe in others more than they believe in themselves.
• Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Your trust is greater than your doubt. Your faith is greater than your fear and your purpose is greater than your challenges.
• Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Don't worry about tomorrow.
Just win today.
Then win the next day, and the day after that.
That's how you win the future.
Day by day.
• Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
"Reputation is the echo of your actions." James Clear
"Greed is wanting the benefits of community without contributing to it." James Clear
Fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien on being overlooked:
"Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."
Source: As said by Aragon in The Return of the King
Novelist Chuck Palahniuk on memory:
"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."
Source: Diary
"Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds." Navy SEALS
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will." Mahatma Gandhi
"True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts." Mia Hamm
"Don't talk, just act. Don't say, just show. Don't promise, just prove." Unknown
"I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work." Bear Bryant
"You never know how long your words will stay in someone's mind even long after you've forgotten you spoke them." Unknown
"Leadership is having people look at you and gain confidence from seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control." Tom Landry
"Believing in people before they have proven themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential." John Maxwell
No more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity than is required to accept misery and poverty." Napoleon Hill
"Direction and discipline, not intention, determines one’s destiny and success." Sam Allen
"Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn't give you credit." Unknown
There's nothing more powerful than a humble person with a warrior spirit who is driven by a bigger purpose. Remember your WHY this week. Let it fuel you to keep going no matter what.
- Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Anything worthwhile takes time to build. We all want success now, but that's not how success works. After all, if we had immediate success, we wouldn’t build the character we need to to sustain true success. The struggle, adversity, triumphs, and victories are all part of the building process, and we must embrace all of it.
- From page 94 of "The Carpenter" book by Jon Gordon
Speak truth to the lies today. Fear is a tool used by the enemy to hold you back from the greatness that is inside you. It’s okay to feel fear, we all do. You just can’t let it stop you. Move forward anyways.
- Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
2 Truths to Remember This Week:
Failure is not meant to define you, it’s meant to refine you. Sometimes you have to lose a goal to find your destiny.
Ignore the critics. Show up and do the work. You are here for a reason. You have a purpose and you are meant to share it.
- Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Be humble and hungry!Focus on your strengths and what matters most.Tune out distractions.See life and people as teachers you can learn from each day.Help others get better!Care more. Put more time, effort, and passion into your work/life.
- Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Replace "I think" with "I will."
I WILL have a good day today!
Small choices can make a big impact. Live intentionally with a positive expectation today!
2 Truths to Remember This Week:
Failure is not meant to define you, it’s meant to refine you. Sometimes you have to lose a goal to find your destiny.
Ignore the critics. Show up and do the work. You are here for a reason. You have a purpose and you are meant to share it.
- Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Three things you control every day are your ATTITUDE, your EFFORT and your ACTIONS.
It doesn’t matter what others are doing or who you think is being unfair. Every day you can focus on being positive, working hard and making others around you better.
- Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
If you have a dream, pursue it.
If you have a passion, live it.
If you face a challenge, conquer it.
And do it all with optimism and faith!
Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
One of the things that holds many of us back, as individuals and teams, is comparing ourselves to others. It's a trap. It causes us to focus on someone else's gifts, talents and purpose versus our own. Focus on being the best YOU that only YOU can be. - Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
You will never rise above the level of your belief! What you believe determines what you create. Believe bigger today. Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Successful people discover what they are good at. Successful leaders discover what OTHERS are good at. - John C. Maxwell / @thejohncmaxwell Look for and bring out the good in others today!
You will never rise above the level of your belief! What you believe determines what you create. Believe bigger today. Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
A leader is a dealer of hope. Be a champion of what's possible today... inspire others to keep going, share a positive vision for the road ahead... most of all believe in others more than they believe in themselves.
Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Your trust is greater than your doubt. Your faith is greater than your fear and your purpose is greater than your challenges.
Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
Don't worry about tomorrow.
Just win today.
Then win the next day, and the day after that.
That's how you win the future.
Day by day.
Jon Gordon / @jongordon11
"Reputation is the echo of your actions." James Clear
"Greed is wanting the benefits of community without contributing to it." James Clear
Fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien on being overlooked:
"Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."
Source: As said by Aragon in The Return of the King
Novelist Chuck Palahniuk on memory:
"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."
Source: Diary
"Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds." Navy SEALS
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will." Mahatma Gandhi
"True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts." Mia Hamm
"Don't talk, just act. Don't say, just show. Don't promise, just prove." Unknown
"I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work." Bear Bryant
"You never know how long your words will stay in someone's mind even long after you've forgotten you spoke them." Unknown
"Leadership is having people look at you and gain confidence from seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control." Tom Landry
"Believing in people before they have proven themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential." John Maxwell
No more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity than is required to accept misery and poverty." Napoleon Hill
"Direction and discipline, not intention, determines one’s destiny and success." Sam Allen
"Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn't give you credit." Unknown
"The best teams play FOR each other, not WITH each other." Jeff Van Gundy
“Believe you can, and you are halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right,” Henry Ford
"The only way to maximize the potential for performance is to be calm in the mind." Brian Sipe
"People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity." Brendon Burchard
March 29, 2022 Your mindset causes the lens in which you view the world to narrow or open. Negativity narrows your perspective and causes you to focus on problems. Positivity broadens your perspective and allows you to see the big picture and find solutions. Positivity sees possibilities! - Jon Gordon | @jongordon11
"It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears, and longings of of others that you may understand them and help them." Wilfred A. Peterson
"Positive expectations are the mark of a superior personality." Brian Tracy
"Each day remember your purpose. Remember why you do what you do. We don't get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it." Jon Gordon
"Immature players think life is going to give in to their demands." Nick Saban
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is ." Lucille Ball
"Leadership is the capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence." Bernard Montgomery
"You have to fight through the bad days to earn the best days." Unknown
"If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve to succeed." Charles Barkley
"Most coaches don't get fired for a lack of strategic knowledge, but rather for leadership deficiencies." Stephanie Zonars
"It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." William Somerset Maugham
"There is no one giant step that does it...it's a lot of little steps." Unknown
"Great coaches...are a spark of energy and enthusiasm. They raise the level of everyone in their program, every day." Alan Stein
"The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices." Bob Knight
All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired. Chuck Palahniuk
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Kenji Miyazawa
"The strongest people aren't always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose." Unknown
"Truth is what stands the test of experience." Unknown
"The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play." Bill Russell
"I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had." - J.K. Rowling
"High expectations are the key to everything." Sam Walton
"The qualities of our expectations determine the quality of our actions." Andres Godin
"Competitors… A relentless, fearless, focused attitude overcomes all distractions and circumstances." Bruce Bowen
"By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be." Unknown
"It's hard to be consistent at something if you aren't dedicated to it." Coach K
"The game of life is like the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. Unknown
"Keep calm by making sure you don't concentrate on anything you can't control." Unknown
Play the right way' means play unselfishly, respect each other's achievements, play hard, fulfill your role." Gregg Popovich
"Be a player that cares more about letters (W/L) than numbers (individual stats)." Unknown
"Believing in people before they have proven themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential." John Maxwell
"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning." Pele
"Be a player that cares more about letters (W/L) than numbers (individual stats)." Unknown
"Be a player that cares more about letters (W/L) than numbers (individual stats)." Unknown
"Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." Sheryl Sandberg
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." John Steinbeck
"Success is not counted by how high you have climbed, but by how many people you brought with you." Wil Rose
"Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you and often does." David Allen
"The miracle is this: the more we share, the more we have." Leonard Nimoy
"To play the inner game is not really a matter of choice--it is always going on and it is played in various outer games. The only two questions are whether we play it consciously and whether we are winning or losing." W. Timothy Gallwey
"Players who are committed to the team first will find a way to help when things are going bad, they will do whatever it takes." Dick Bennett
"Deal with the world the way it is, not the way you wish it was." John Chambers
“Failure is success in progress." - Albert Einstein
"Leadership requires deep systematic, analytical thought. Today's environment is so fluid and unforgiving that deep thought is a must!" Kevin Eastman
"Never mistake motion for action." Ernest Hemingway
January 17, 2022 "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Discipline is doing what has to be done, when it has to be done, as well as it can be done, and doing it that way all the time." Bob Knight
"Teamwork is the only way to reach our ultimate moments and create breakthroughs that define our careers and fulfill our lives." Pat Riley
“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” - W. Clement Stone
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't wish it were easier, work to get better." Jim Rohn
"Vision without Execution is hallucination." - Thomas Edison
"One secret of success is the consistency of purpose." Pat Riley
"Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better." Harvey MacKay
"Advice to leaders: Building trust is a journey, not a destination." Ken Blanchard
"Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution rather than the outcome of the game." Morgan Wootten
"Either you run the day, or the day runs you." Jim Rohn
"Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you cannot remain still." Patricia Russell-McCloud
“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.” - Jim Rohn
"If you want to be successful, prepare to be doubted and tested." Unknown
"If you do what we ask you to do, the victories will belong to you, and the losses to me."
Dean Smith
"We Must OUTLAST the offense on every defensive possession! Great defense takes consistent effort and commitment to excellence, every second of every practice and every game. Dick Bennett
"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." Brian Tracy
"If you want something different, you gotta do something different. ." Nathaniel Williams
"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader." Dolly Parton
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude. Viktor E. Frankl
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor E. Frankl
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” -Viktor Frankl.
"Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change." Tom Clancy
"In order to win the game, you must first not lose it." Chuck Noll
"Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice." Dr. Jim Afremow
"Team leaders: You don't always have to say perfect words; just seeing your passion, confidence, and energy can be enough to rally a team." Unknown
"There are no secrets to success It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." Colin Powell
"Flexibility is a make-or-break component of motivation, the art of getting people to do what needs to be done." Bill Parcells
"As a coach, are our players 'in practice' or 'into practice?' We need to make practice a time they look to get 'into every day." Dennis Hutter
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer
The key to leadership is the desire to make a difference. John Maxwell
"You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make." Gordon B. Hinckley
"Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them. There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done." David Allen
"Success trains, failure complains." Unknown
Follow effective action with quiet reflection from that quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Peter Drucker
"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." - Roger Bannister
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine
"The willingness to ask questions coupled with the discipline to seek out answers separates leaders from followers." John Maxwell
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." John Wooden
"Talent sets the floor. Character sets the ceiling." Bill Belichick
"All great achievements have one thing in common--people with a passion to succeed." Pat Cash
"I do not think there is any quality so essential to the success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." John Rockefeller
"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
Henry Ford
Drum Teacher Stephen Taylor tells his students - Speed is a natural byproduct of learning something well. Get the motions down. Focus on the fluidity of the motion.
Everyday you have to plan – everyday. You’ve heard the saying that we don’t plan to fail, we fail to plan. Hard work works. Working really hard is what successful people do. And in this text, tweet, twerk world that you’ve grown up in, remember just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done. Remember that, just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done. Don’t confuse movement with progress. My mom told me, you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere. Continue to strive, continue to have goals, continue to progress. - Denzel Washington
"To play the inner game is not really a matter of choice--it is always going on and it is played in various outer games. The only two questions are whether we are winning or losing.” Timothy Gallwey
Drum Teacher Stephen Taylor tells his students - Speed is a natural byproduct of learning something well. Get the motions down. Focus on the fluidity of the motion.
Everyday you have to plan – everyday. You’ve heard the saying that we don’t plan to fail, we fail to plan. Hard work works. Working really hard is what successful people do. And in this text, tweet, twerk world that you’ve grown up in, remember just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done. Remember that, just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done. Don’t confuse movement with progress. My mom told me, you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere. Continue to strive, continue to have goals, continue to progress. - Denzel Washington
"Leadership isn't about getting your own way, it's about helping others find theirs." Unknown
"All for One and One for All, United We Stand, Divided We Fall." Alexandre Dumas
"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount." Clare Booth Luce
The Nearer You Come to a Calm Mind, The Closer You Are to Strength. Marcus Aurelius
"Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent." Bill Walsh
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John F. Kennedy
"Champions fully grasp the difference between what they can and what they can't control in an event...and choose to focus on the former." Dr. Jerry Lynch
"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability." Robert Half
"You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?" Jim Rohn
“I know what I can do so it doesn’t bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.” Jesse Owens
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." John F. Kennedy
In order to achieve your goals, you must apply discipline and consistency - and never confuse movement with progress, Denzel Washington
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." Unknown
"Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced." Fran Tarkenton
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken." Warren Buffet
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes." Peter Drucker
A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation." Misty Hyman
"You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days." Unknown
"Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed." Vincent Van Gogh
"Expect the BEST, prepare for the WORST, forget what others THINK." Unknown
"Team leaders: You don't always have to say perfect words; just seeing your passion, confidence, and energy can be enough to rally a team." Unknown
"Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself but for other people as well." Bill Walton
"Education comes from within. You get it by struggle and effort and thought." Napoleon Hill
"All kids need a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them." Unknown
"A person is literally what they think, their character being the complete sum of all their thoughts." James Allen
"There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail." Michael Jordan
"Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught" Pat Summitt
"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"If a coach has to beg a player into wanting to improve and get better, they are wasting two people's time." Gary Curneen
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"If you spend your time trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything." Tom Rath
"If you spend your time trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything."
Tom Rath
"Being coachable is on the player. If you want to win, you will be coachable." Jeff Van Gundy
"There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses." Ken Blanchard
"If you spend your time trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything."
Tom Rath
"There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses." Ken Blanchard
"Being coachable is on the player. If you want to win, you will be coachable." Jeff Van Gundy
"I'm too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, and too determined to be defeated!" Amy Hauser
"Practice without improvement is meaningless" Chuck Knox
"If I always appeared prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation." Napoleon Bonaparte
"Confidence comes not from always being right, but rather from not fearing to be wrong."
Unknown
"Give everyone more than they expect and you'll get more back than you expected." Unknown
"Great players are not great because they are perfect, they are great because they have a perfect reaction to their mistakes." Spencer Wood
"There is no success without hardship." - Sophocles
"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak." Michel de Montaigne
"We want to be the most enthusiastic and energetic team in the country. That's what we can control." Shaka Smart
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't. Jerry Rice
"You can say whatever you want to say to try to get somebody to believe you. Probably won't work. At the end of the day, trust is gained." Bill Gates
"No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him." - Charles Kendall Adams
"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life." E. M. Forester
"Don't measure yourself by what you accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability." John Wooden
"You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution." Bob Proctor
"People hear what they want to hear. That means our players' experiences and beliefs determine what they hear." Unknown
"One difference between average teams and very good teams is that good teams do not surrender to fatigue." Unknown
"I don't think there's a home way or a roadway to play. I think there's one way and I've said this many times. It's the right way." Alain Vigneault
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the leader is a servant." Max de Pree
"If you believe in someone, let them know. They can gain tremendous strength and energy from your belief." Unknown
"We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start." Unknown
"When coaches learn, they should always try to learn in detail. But when they teach, they should teach with simplicity." Gary Curneen
"Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them." Vaibhav Shah
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less." C.S. Lewis
"Success depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character." Unknown
"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then they did it." Paul "Bear" Bryant
"You can have results, or you can have excuses, but you can't have both." Unknown
"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during time that others waste." Henry Ford
"Your job gives you authority. Your behavior earns you respect." Irwin Federman
"You can talk about it all you want, but if you don't practice it, you won't do it in the games. You have to coach it every day." Monte Kiffin
"Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so." David Brooks
"A team's identity is one of the most important ingredients in winning." Scotty Bowman
"I am looking for people who have an infinite capacity to not know what cannot be done."
Henry Ford
"What will you do today that will make you proud in a year?" Unknown
One time when Henry Ford was asked if he didn’t stand to lose a great deal of money if certain things went wrong, he said one should not think about things going wrong. . .
“You must never, even for a second, let yourself think that you can fail,” said Mr. Ford. “Our first principal is that failure is impossible. You may not get what you’re trying to do right the first time or the second time or the tenth time or the 100th time, but if you shut out of your mind the possibility of being licked, then you are bound to win.”
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice." - Wayne Dyer
As Lao Tzu once said, " The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
"Create habits that will make for success in the most difficult situations." Jay Wright
"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them." Les Brown
"It's so important to know upfront that challenges exist in almost everything we are trying to accomplish. Worthwhile is often preceded by hard!" Kevin Eastman
"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment can you grow." Brian Tracy
"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else." Martina Navratilova
"If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out." Chuck Noll
"Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation," Larry Bird
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." Vince Lombardi
"Leadership is about the eyes to see what needs improving & to set the vision; the ears to hear what's going on; & the heart to help when needed." Kevin Eastman
"Where focus goes, energy flows." Tony Robbins
"There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do." Vince Lombardi
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." Winston Churchill
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”— HENRY DAVID THOREAU
"In the end, it's about teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. Teaching the players in practice was what coaching was all about to me." John Wooden
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable integrity, Without it, no real success is possible." Dwight D. Eisenhower
"You'll be surprised how far you can go from the point where you thought it was the end."
Unknown
"For me, the starting point before everything-before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, finished talent or experience is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude you're dead in the water, finished." Bill Walsh
"Hold the vision, trust the process." - Unknown
"People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude." John C. Maxwell
"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." Booker T. Washington
"We get the best out of others when we give the best of ourselves." Harvey Firestone
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci
"A lesson young people need to learn is when to use others' comments to grow and when to let those comments go." Lori Morrison
"Culture has more impact than scheme. It has more to do with winning than scheme."
Kevin Stallings
"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you." Althea Gibson
"When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know--but if you listen you may learn something new." JP McEvoy
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." John Lubbock
"To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." Unknown
"The strongest people aren't always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose." Unknown
"No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the player who recovers from their mistakes who wins." Phil Jackson
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
"See yourself with kind eyes. Try to forget completely all the idiotic things you’ve done, the pain you’ve given to others, the embarrassments you’ve suffered, the mistakes you’ve made in the past. Again, wipe the slate clean.” –EARL NIGHTINGALE
"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself." Jose Ortega Y Gasset
"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." Unknown
"Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment." Mike Van Hoozer
"I don't do things HALF-HEARTEDLY. I know that if I do, then I can expect HALF-HEARTED results." Michael Jordan
"People cannot directly choose their circumstances, but they can choose their thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape their circumstances." Napoleon Hill
"Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent." Bill Walsh
"The need for solid and ongoing reinforcement never (ever, ever, ever) ends." Unknown
"While you're sitting back complaining about a situation, another coach is out there finding a solution to it." Trevor McLean
"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." Peter T. McIntyre
"It is what it is. But it will be what you make it." Pat Summitt
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Edmund Hillary
"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile." Vince Lombardi
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total, all those acts will be written in the history of this generation." Robert F. Kennedy
"You must contribute your whole self to the team, not just your athletic self."- Phil Jackso
"One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you don't feel like doing it.” Unknown
"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak." - Michel de Montaign
"If the action is foolish. The reaction should be intelligent." Abdullah Bin Bayyah
"Complaining causes you to focus on everything but being your best." Jon Gordon
"Often it's not the daily increase, but the daily decrease that makes the difference. Hack away the unessential." Bruce Lee
"When a group of over-protected, under-corrected players meets a team of tough-minded, disciplined competitors, it is a mismatch." Proactive Coach
"Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.” Rashedur Ryan Rahman
"Coaching is taking a player where they can't take themselves." Unknown
"The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret." Sarah Bombell
"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember--the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you." -Zig Ziglar
"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit." Vince Lombardi
"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." Margaret Thatcher
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." Margaret Thatcher
"No one will make a good leader who wants to do it all themselves or get all the credit for doing it." Andrew Carnegie
"Good habits are important, but it's often our bad habits that prevent us from reaching our full potential...you're only as good as your worst habits." Amy Morin
"A bad shot is the first pass of your opponent's fast break." Jay Bilas
"Success seems to be connected with ACTION. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they DON'T QUIT."- Conrad Hilton
"Teamwork is the only way to reach our ultimate moments and create breakthroughs that define our careers and fulfill our lives." Pat Riley
"It's what you're doing when you're not doing what you're supposed to be doing that's the problem." Wyatt Smallwood
"Winning isn't everything, but making the effort to win is." Vince Lombardi
"Make each day your masterpiece." - John Wooden
"Success isn't just about what you accomplish in your life; it's about what you inspire others to do." - Unknown
"There's no growth in the comfort zone and there's no comfort in the growth zone." Tim Elmore
"Confidence...thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"What sets disciplined people apart? The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand." Bill Parcells
"Being busy does not always mean doing real work." Thomas Edison
"You'll be surprised to know how far you can go from the point where you thought you couldn't go any more." Unknown
"Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action." Jim Rohn
Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside of you- if you listen to is, you can hear it.
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." -Truman Capote
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." William James
"You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some up, calm others down until finally, they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team." Paul "Bear" Bryant
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Opportunities don't happen. You create them." - Chris Grosser
"Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine." Pat Summitt
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." John Wooden
"People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." Zig Ziglar
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." -Oscar Wilde
"Your excuses are nothing more than your fears coming to get you." Unknown
"The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together. Paul Ryan
"Good habits are important, but it's often our bad habits that prevent us from reaching our full potential...you're only as good as your worst habits." Robert F. Kennedy
"How you look at the world is how you treat it. How you treat the world is what the world becomes for you." – Ted Larkins
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total, all those acts will be written in the history of this generation." Robert F. Kennedy
"Hold the vision, trust the process." - Unknown
You see things, and you say "Why?" but I dream things that never were, and I say "Why not" George Bernard Shaw
"You measure a person by what it takes to discourage them." Bo Ryan
"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination." Ralph Marston
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are." Maya Angelou
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." Unknown
"You become like the five people you spend the most time with. Choose wisely." Unknown
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at." - Stephen Hawking
"Success is not counted by how high you have climbed, but by how many people you have brought with you." Wil Rose
"Failure is success if we learn from it."- Malcolm Forbes
"You cannot achieve what you have not defined." John Maxwell
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John F. Kennedy
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. Martin Luther King Jr.
"To defeat a week opponent is not the problem. The problem is to win when your opponent is as good as or better than you." Robert Neyland
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at." - Stephen Hawking
"Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after another." Walter Elliot
"Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding." Jim Valvano
"Continue to invest in your personal development. Expand your occupational horizons by constant study. Take time to think. The dimensions of most jobs are constrained only by the mind of the uncreative worker." J. Richard Clarke
"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, leaving no stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now." P.T. Barnum
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it that does." Lou Holtz
Jedi Master Yoda, “You must unlearn what you have learned.”
“It takes patience to run fast in track & field.”– Vince Anderson
“Posture is the first most important aspect of speed.” – Tom Tellez
“Create as much horizontal displacement as possible at take off in the triple jump.” -Boo Schexnayder
“Track & Field is the ultimate athletic event. There are football players, basketball players, tennis players but we are track & field athletes.” – Paul Souza
"Answer these questions often: What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Where is it going?" Jed McKenna
"Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity." Will Smith
"Every person is enthusiastic at times. One person has an enthusiasm for 30 minutes; another person has it for 30 days, but it is the person who has it for 30 years who makes a success in life." Edward Butler George
"We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat." Dick Bennett
"A coach's words become a player's reality. The best choose carefully. We instead of I Yes instead of No And instead of But Enhance instead of Improve." Gary Curneen
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John F. Kennedy
"Opportunity follows struggle If follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before." Unknown
"Anything that is measured and watched improves." Bob Parsons
"Excellence is never an accident'; it is the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, skillful execution, and the vision to see obstacles as opportunities." Unknown
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance." Bruce Barton
“The Five C's of Coaching:
1- Clarity
2- Communication
3- Collaboration
4- Commitment
5- Culture”
― Farshad Asl
"You must do one thing every day which makes you feel uncomfortable." Richard Parkes Cordock
"Things rarely get stuck due to a lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined." David Allen
"To become a master of any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working in tandem." Maurice Young
“I am a member of the team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.” Mia Hamm
"Leaders are those who empower others." Bill Gates
"The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person." Norman Vincent Peale
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to." George Allen
"Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us." Earl Nightingale
"If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away." Linus Pauling
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents." Eric Hoffer
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." James R. Cook
"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. Neldon Mandela
“When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.” Mark Miller
“Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.” Amit Ray
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." Frank Lloyd Wright
“If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.” Arthur C. Clarke
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” Arthur C. Clarke
"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it." Marian Anderson
"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have." Norman Vincent Peale
"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event." Brian Tracy
"I will prepare and someday my chance will come." Abraham Lincoln
"The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses It is won behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road long before I dance under those lights." Muhammad Ali
"Confidence comes from being prepared." John Wooden
"A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning." Chuck Noll
“There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” Derek Jeter
"You have to play so hard that it hurts." Kyle Johnson
"Our life is what our thoughts make it." Marcus Aurelius
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Stephen Covey
"Difficulties show what people really are." Epictetus
"The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek." Celestine Chua
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.” Knute Rockne
"A bad day coaching is better than a good day doing almost anything else." Bob Hurley Sr.
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” Zig Ziglar
“Leadership is giving out far more than one expects an indirect return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless.” T Jay Taylor
“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.” John Wooden
“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves” Joseph Campbell
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." Winston Churchill
No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. - Charles Francis Adams
“Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.” Albert Payson Terhune
“You must be personally reliable before you can coach your team to generate reliable results.” Lee Colan
“To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.” John C. Maxwell
“Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.”
Avijeet Das
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. Jane Goodall
"Your attitude is either the lock on or the key to the door of success." Dennis Waitley
“Don't stop at the first obstacle; have the endurance to keep on going and you will succeed.” Robert A. Schuller
“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.” Roy T. Bennett
"Your attitude is either the lock on or the key to the door of success." Dennis Waitley
“Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear” John Madden
“Success is a CHOICE, not CHANCE” Ben Burlinson
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not look where you fell, but rather where you slipped." African Proverb
"Quote to share with your players regarding their choices of people to hang out with. "You can't do A+ work with D+ people." Pat McAfee
"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers
"To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to." Julius Erving
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln
"It's hard to be consistent at something if you aren't dedicated to it." Coach K
"No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him." - Charles Kendall Adams
"Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles." Alex Karras
"The smartest person in the room is the one asking the questions” Steve Siebold
"To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to." Julius Erving
"First, we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you." Rob Gilbert
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." James Allen
"Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but a lack of hard work guarantees failure." Unknown
"The greatest day in your life and in mine is the day we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up." John C.Maxwell
"Actions express priorities." Mahatma Gandhi
"I Can't = I Certainly Am Not Trying." @CoachMottoon Twitter
"One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now." Paulo Coelho
"Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution." Stephen Sondheim
"The moment you accept total responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you claim the power to change anything in your life." Hal Elrod
"All it takes is one person who is committed, focused, and on a mission to spark an entire team into believing in themselves." Bruce Brown
"Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?" Ray Kroc
"There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing
something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses." Ken Blanchard
"Playing second fiddle isn't always easy, but it's always important." Unknown
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward
"Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair." Unknown
"You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution." Bob Proctor
"Leaders are those who empower others." Bill Gates
"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth." Charles A. Dana
"Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear." Craig D. Lounsbrough
"The days you are most uncomfortable are the days you learn the most about yourself." Mary L. Bean
"What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success?" Tony Robbins
"You need to decide whether you want a life of comfort or a life of accomplishment." Unknown
"Direction and discipline, not intention, determines one's destiny and success" Sam Allen
"Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you." Unknown
"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." John Wooden
"Few persons have the courage to appear as good as they really are." John Wooden
"What gets scheduled gets done." Michael Hyatt
"You are greater than your circumstances. More courageous than your fears. The struggle is real but you are strong. Life is tough but you are tougher."- Jon Gordon
"It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results." Warren Buffet
"I make more mistakes than anyone else I know. And, sooner or later, I patent most of them." Thomas Edison
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
"I can help, but in the end it is up to you" David Kirby
The one important thing I have learnt over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking oneself seriously. The first is imperative and the second disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn
"Victory or defeat is not determined at the moment of crisis, but rather in the long and unspectacular period of preparation" Anonymous
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
Muhammad Ali
"Success is CHOICE, not CHANCE" Ben Burlinson
"Culture consists of the shared purpose, attitudes, values, goals, practices, behaviors, and habits that define a team or organization." Jon Gordon
"A coach's words become an athlete's reality." Gary Curneen
“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” ~Nido Qubein
"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." John Wooden
"Wisdom is always an over match for strength." Phil Jackson
"Adversity causes some to break; others to break records." William Ward
The first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself. Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, and humility. -Nelson Mandela
"Few persons have the courage to appear as good as they really are." Unknown
"In a competitive environment, to stay the same is to regress." Bill Parcells
"The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
"It takes persistent practice to be skillful in the act." Lailah Gifty Akita
Each day remember your purpose. Remember why you do what you do. We don't get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it. Jon Gordon
"Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime." Mike Krzyzewski
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all of your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." -Golda Meir
"The key is not to prioritize your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." Stephen Covey
To make a difference in someone's life, you don't have to be brilliant, rich, or perfect. You just have to care.-- Mandy Hale
"We all need a check up from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which leads to hardening of the attitudes." Zig Ziglar
"Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult." Abdul Kalam
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou
"Your opponent isn't the other guy. Your opponent is human nature." Bob Knight
A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts.
Steve Prefontaine
"Success isn't just about what you accomplish in life. It's about what you inspire others to do." Unknown
"All in means you bring it every day, every time! You can't coast to greatness." Unknown
"All in means you bring it every day, every time! You can't coast to greatness." Michael Catt via @coachmotto on Twitter
"Teamwork is the only way to reach our ultimate moments and create breakthroughs that define our careers and fulfill our lives." Pat Riley
"It's not what you do once in a while; it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference." Unknown
"Great things are not accidental, but must certainly be willed." Vincent van Gogh
"Worry is wasting today's time cluttering up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles." Unknown
"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happnes to you."
Aldous Huxley
"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside." Wayne Dyer
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." Unknown
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson
"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happnes to you." Aldous Huxley
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made." Wayne Dyer
"Keep calm by making sure you don't concentrate on anything you can't control." Unknown
"Discipline is doing what has to be done, when it has to be done, as well as it can be done, and doing it that way all the time." Unknown
"A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself." Jim Valvano
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." Anais Nin
"If you want people to be flexible, adaptable, and open to feedback, so must you." George Raveling
"My message to my team: I'm not here to make you feel good about bad play. I'm here to get you to understand how good you can be." John Calipari
"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."Clare Booth Luce
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin
"We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat." Dick Bennett
"The best leaders immerse themselves in both teaching and learning. Growth comes by both." Kevin Eastman
"Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life." John Wooden
"It's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process."
Jon Gordon
"A person's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"More games are won during practice than during the game." George Raveling
"Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action." Anthony Robbins
"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." Henry Moore
"A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life." -John Wooden
"Being coachable is on the player. If you want to win, you will be coachable." Jeff Van Gundy
"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." Henry Moore
"A person's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life." -John Wooden
"Being coachable is on the player. If you want to win, you will be coachable." Jeff Van Gundy
"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." Henry Moore
"A person's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.” - John C Maxwell
"The game of life is like the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy." Unknown
"More games are won during practice than during the game." George Raveling
Once you have established the goals you want and the price you're willing to pay, you can ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure and the temporary failures. ~Vince Lombardi
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
- William James
"A word of encouragement after failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success." Unknown
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." Milton Berle
"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. "Golda Meir
"Body language never whispers. It SCREAMS!" Buzz Williams
"The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions; they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners." Bill Walsh
You are greater than your circumstances. More courageous than your fears. The struggle is real but you are strong. Life is tough but you are tougher. -Jon Gordon
"It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes that operation first class." J. Willard Marriott, Sr
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." C. S. Lewis
"There's no substitute for guts." Bear Bryant
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. "Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am not remotely interested in just being good." Vince Lombardi
"Don't measure yourself by what you accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability." John Wooden
"There are no great teams without great teammates." Unknown
"You won't be good enough to ever beat another team by yourself. But you can destroy your own team with a bad attitude."
"People do not decide their futures. They decide their habits and their habits decide their future." F.M. Alexander
"Don't count the things you do, do the things that count." Zig Ziglar
"Confidence comes not from always being right, but rather from not fearing to be wrong." Unknown
If you take a close look at the most successful people in life, you'll find that their strength is not in having the right answers, but in asking the right questions. -John Chancellor
"A coach can help you with your mistakes, but nobody can help you with your excuses." Buzz Williams
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." -Normal Vincent Peale
"...To be an athlete, you first must learn-- that it's ‘self-respect' you'll have to earn. You must conquer you, or you'll surely get beat, ‘cause you are the one, against whom you compete" Robert L. Kleine
"The will must be stronger than the skill." Muhammed Ali
"Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the axe." Abraham Lincoln
"How can you know what your limits are if you've never pushed them?"Herbert Simon
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." Colin Powell
"We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can every act of kindness." Unknown
"Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be." Tony Dungy
"Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but it does improve its chances." B.J. Gupta
"Have goals so big that your problems pale in comparison." Grant Cardone
"Instead of always thinking about what you 'want' for yourself, also put in the forefront of your thoughts what you 'expect' of yourself." Kevin Eastman
"I can't sacrifice integrity for talent."Dick Bennett
"How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?." Doc Rivers to his players
"Do, Or do not. There is no try." Yoda a Jedi master
A few thoughts from Enzo - A positive mindset changes everything! You must stay very focused and take action everyday. You need to be passionate, persistent and purpose driven. Your Time is Now! D.I.A.}>Decide in Advance that you are going to be great.
"By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better." John Wooden
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. Michael Althsuler
Positive Self Talk Link is below - Clickable under Useful Links!
https://trackandfieldtoolbox.net/mental-skills/positive-self-talk
6 TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE POSITIVE SELF-TALK
-Self-talk should be practiced ahead of time (outside of competition).
-While there are best practices, the focus should be less about negative/positive, or good/bad self-talk, and more about what is PRODUCTIVE for athletes in certain situations.
-Individual preferences are okay.
-Self-talk should be focused on what should be done, rather than what should be avoided.
-Different situations might call for different types of self-talk.
-It is difficult to turn off self-talk. For most people, self-talk is going to happen, for the good or the bad, regardless of whether you work on it. Knowing that, you may as well make the monologue in your head helpful… and positive!
"Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road."Jack Hyles
"Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so." David Brooks
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Unknown
"Ships don't sink because of the water around them. Ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don't let what's happening around you and weigh you down." Alan Stein
"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins
"You will never change your results unless you change something that you do daily." John Maxwell
"Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action." Anthony Robbins
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Confucius
"Hustle never goes in a slump." Adam Eaton
"Words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality." Harold S. Geneen --- What do you think?
"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." Theodore N. Vail
"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." Jim Rohn
"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, but in what direction you are moving." Oliver Wendell Holmes
SMILE! - A smile activates mirror neurons -- special signals that fire when we act and when we observe others acting--making grins literally contagious. Smiles are like parties for the brain. They activate neuropeptides that work to reduce stress and spread happy messages through the body. Both the smiler and the “smilee” usually feel a mood boost.
"One difference between average teams and very good teams is that good teams do not surrender
to fatigue." Unknown
"Every person, every setback, every experience in your life can teach you something if you are open to learning from it. When you view life from this perspective, class is always in session." Unknown
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot." Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. Henry Ford
"If you can’t fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." MLK
To succeed, we must believe we can!
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle
Only the prepared individual deserves to be confident. Dale Carnegie
It's not about perfect, it's about effort. When you give effort in your life, that's how change occurs. Keep going and remember why you started. Jillian Michaels
Be Nice and Smile - Coach Dwyer
"There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it." Pat Riley
"You can't always be the strongest, or most talented, or most gifted person in the room, but you can be the most competitive." Pat Summitt
"Adversity is the state in which people most easily become more acquainted with themselves." John Wooden
"To go from good to great, it's all in the details. Everything matters. "Steve Kerr
"Sometimes we are more limited by attitudes than by opportunities." William James
"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine." - Roy T. Bennett
"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. " -Charles Francis Adams
There are no shortcuts. To be a big success. Start a little earlier, work a little harder and stay a little later. Brian Tracy
"High expectations are the key to everything." Sam Walton
"How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?" Doc Rivers
"By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be." Unkown
"Competitors... A relentless, fearless, focused attitude overcomes all distractions and circumstances." Bruce Bowen
"The qualities of our expectations determine the quality of our actions." Andres Godin
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Education comes from within. You get it by struggle and effort and thought." Napoleon Hill
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
"Do. Or do not. There is no try." - Master Yoda
"Success depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character." Unknown
"If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out." Chuck Noll
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." Vince Lombardi
"Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation," Larry Bird
"All great achievements have one thing in common--people with a passion to succeed." Pat Cash
"Where focus goes, energy flows." Tony Robbins
It's not where you place, it's how hard you worked to get there!
Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the coverage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill
"You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days." Unknown
"Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together." Paul Ryan
Toughness is coming face to face with your limitations, whatever they may be, and having the courage to acknowledge them and still keep going.
The difference between ordinary and extra ordinary is the little extra.
"Words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality." Harold S. Geneen
Amanda DiDonato submitted "Yard by yard can be very hard! Inch by inch is a cinch! Start your day with a glass of water and put on a song that makes you move!" -Coach Dwyer
"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event." Brian Tracy
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." John Lubbock
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." William James
“When it comes to luck, you make your own.” – Bruce Springsteen
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
"The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret." Sarah Bombell
Patience and discipline, as well as the confidence in yourself, your teammates and your coaches will help you to become a true competitor. Coach Dwyer
"The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret." Sarah Bombell
Patience, as well as the confidence in yourself, your teammates and your coaches will help you to become a true competitor. Coach Dwyer
"Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."- Henry Ford
"Winning isn't everything, but making the effort to win is."Vince Lombardi
“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
"I will prepare and someday my chance will come." Abraham Lincoln
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." Muhammad Ali What do you think?
"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do." Derek Jeter
"Adversity causes some to break; others to break records." William Ward
"Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes." Roy T. Bennett
"Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team." Cheryl A. Bachelder
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be
sent to you. You have to win it." Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Running, however hard it feels at the time, gives you strength and self-belief.” Tina Chantrey, coach and mental health advocate
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them
into the impossible." Arthur C. Clarke
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." -Tim Notke (popularized by Kevin Durant) So Coach Dwyer says, Just Keep Working Hard!
"What is love? Love is playing every game like it's your last." Michael Jordan
"Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark." Amit Ray
"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." John Wooden
"I am a member of the team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion." Mia Hamm
"To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing
with one another."John C. Maxwell
"Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat."-Avijeet Das
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader." John Quincy Adams
"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen." Lee Iacocca
"If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you have time to do it over?" - John Wooden
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. — Oprah Winfrey
If you believe it will work out, you will see OPPORTUNITIES, if you believe it won't you will see OBSTACLES-Jessica Smith
“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grit and persistence are common traits of successful people.
Grit-courage and resolve; strength of character.
A positive trait based on passion, persistence and motivation.
It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always. - Oprah Winfrey
Yard by yard can be very hard! Inch by inch is a cinch! Start your day with a glass of water and put on a song that makes you move!
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination"
- Tommy Lasorda
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. - John R. Wooden
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. - Benjamin Franklin
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
- Oprah Winfrey
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
The ones who believed in themselves the most were the ones who won.
– Florence Griffith Joyner
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage and confidence in the doing. - Theodore Roosevelt
Be who you are and say what you feel, because in the end those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter. - Theodor Seuss Geisel
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. - J.K. Rowling
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence. - James N. Watkins
No one is born a perfect runner. And none of us will become one. But through incremental steps, we can become better runners. And that’s the beauty of our sport: There are no shortcuts, nothing is given to us; we earn every mile, and we earn every result. -Peter Magill, 2010 USA Masters 5K champion
Awesome Quote-Thanks Noreen
Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own. - Plato
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. - Theodor Seuss Geisel
You just can't beat the person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth
Vision without action, is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese Proverb
Set Your Goals - I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. - Bill Gates
Set Your Goals-The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. - Amelia Earhart
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. - Mother Teresa
Olympic Inspiration
It's all about the journey, not the outcome. - Carl Lewis
Don't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get. - Michael Phelps
There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out. - Lolo Jones
If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail. - Mark Spitz
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. - Babe Ruth
If we push on, we begin to feel a vague, tingling sense of who, or what, we really are. It’s a powerful feeling, strong enough to have us coming back for more, again and again. – Adharanand Finn
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.
Full effort is full victory. – Mahatma Gandhi
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. – Tommy Lasorda
Check the links below to link to some great authors
Yesterday we lost Muhammad Ali. If you want to reflect upon how remarkable he was, look beyond his audacity and performance in the ring -- stunning as they were. Think about who he was at what time in history. He always had a lot to say to people in the arena since that was where he was raised. Here is a sampling for those of building something from nothing -- any of us trying to make impact in any way:
1) "I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want."
2) "I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked."
3) "What you're thinking is what you're becoming."
4) “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
5) “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
6) “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
7) “Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”
8) “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
9) “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”
10) "I shook up the world. Me! Whee!"
11) “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”
12) "Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you."
13) "Don't count the days; make the days count."
14) “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
And perhaps most importantly of all:
15 "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Muhammad Ali
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' Muhammad Ali
It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard… is what makes it great. – Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan in “A League of Their Own”
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Ryun
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually pain passes and flow returns. It's part of racing. Frank Shorter
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
How you do anything is how you do everything. - Kristin Armstrong
To give anything but your best is to sacrifice the gift. - Steve Prefontaine
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't. Jerry Rice
If you're interested, you'll do what is convenient. If you're committed, you'll do what it takes. John Assara
One step in the right direction is better than 100 YEARS of thinking about it!
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - John D. Rockefeller
Just remember...people are like sticks of dynamite; the power’s on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit!
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right! --Henry Ford
If you believe you will achieve!
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
How you do anything is how you do everything. - Kristin Armstrong
To give anything but your best is to sacrifice the gift. - Steve Prefontaine
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't. Jerry Rice
Just remember...people are like sticks of dynamite; the power’s on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit!
Push harder than yesterday if you want a different tomorrow!
The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. – Michelangelo
Without hard work, nothing grows without weeds.
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. Norman Ralph Augustine
“Let the record book show you won, or let it show you lost, but don’t let it show that you failed to play the game.”
- Ted Engstrom
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain
“Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.”
-Napoleon Hill
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
-Albert Einstein
"When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change."
-Wayne Dyer
"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind." (Seneca)
But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." (Herman Melville)
"If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got." (W.L. Bateman)
"They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint." (Isaiah 40:31, KJV)
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." ("Ulysses", by Tennyson).
"A committed decision to reach a predetermined specific goal, combined with burning desire, followed by immediate, massive action repeated consistently for as long as it takes until your goal is reached."
-Tom Venuto
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter"
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-Marianne Williamson
If a man does his best, what else is there?"
-General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)
"Whether you think you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." -Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. "
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. "
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. "
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him." (one for the coaches out there)
-W. A. Nance
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
-James R. Cook.
"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results."
-Michael Jordan
"Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose."
-Nancy Kerrigan
"One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses is not good for the coach."
-Knute Rockne
"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot . . . when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result."
-Michael Jordan
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
-Hershel Walker
"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant labor, always inspired by the ideal."
-Sarah Bernhardt
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
-Vince Lombardi
"The road to success is always under construction."
-Arnold Palmer
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
-Vidal Sassoon
"There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything."
-Vince Lombardi
"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."
-Roger Babson
"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts."
-George Tilton
"The will to succeed is important, but what's even more important is the will to prepare."
-Bobby Knight
"80% of Success is showing up."
-Woody Allen
"The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration."
-Babe Didrikson
"Easy Street" is a blind alley."
-Anon
"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
-Dale Carnegie
"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses . . . on your powers, instead of your problems."
-Paul J. Meyers
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
-Buddha
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
-Pamela Vaull Starr
"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is."
-Zig Zaglar
"Running is a metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it"
- Anonymous
"If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record."
- Anonymous
"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to work."
- Buck, Pearl
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the
small daily differences we can make."
- Edelman, Marion Wright
"Only those who do nothing make no mistakes."
- Anonymous
"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely."
- Anonymous
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
"To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
- E. E. Cummings
"You will never find time for anything. you must make it."
- Charles Buxton
"When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress."
- Alfred A. Montapert
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers
" Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible."
- George Lorimer
"Concentration is the secret of strength."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Keep spiritually sound and be persistent. Persistence is the key. Just never stop believing in your dream."
-Deborah Aquila
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."
- Robert Frost
"We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough."
-Helen Keller
"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger."
- Albert Camus
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
- Miyazawa Kenji
"It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity."
- Publilius Syrus
"There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human."
- James Joyce
"Any fool can run in circles, but it takes a wise man to hurdle."
- Anonymous
"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."
-William A. Ward
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
-Samuel Johnson
"If you are good, be better."
-Anonymous
"If you do not consciously form good habits, you will unconsciously form bad ones."
-Anonymous
"Faith can move mountains, doubt can create them."
-Anonymous
"Everyone's a potential winner. Some people are disguised as losers though--Don't let their appearance fool you."
-Anonymous
"He who stops being better stops being good."
-Oliver Cromwell
"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
-Gale Sayers
"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."
-Ray Knight
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
-Tommy Lasorda
"Winners make goals, losers make excuses."
-Anonymous
"A winner solves his problems, but a loser is defeated by his."
-Anonymous
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
-John Wooden
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
-Satchel Paige
"If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it."
-Ronnie Lott
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
-Herschel Walker
"It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice."
-Eric Lindros
"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks."
-Joe Paterno
"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."
-Tom Landry
"Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time."
-Lou Brock
"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."
-Charlie Finley
"The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion."
-Jean-Claude Killy
"The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves."
-Anonymous
"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top."
-O.J. Simpson
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it as long as you really believe 100 percent."
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."
-George Shultz
"Practice is 90% physical-10% mental. Championship meets are 10% physical-90% mental."
-Anonymous
"The more I train, the more I realize I have more speed in me."
-Leroy Burrell
"The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I'm starting to believe that."
-Dan O'Brien
"There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There's no such thing as life in-between."
-Pat Riley
"There's no substitute for guts."
-Paul "Bear" Bryant
"You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge."
-Damon Runyon
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
-Michael Jordan
"Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
-Anonymous
"Only those risking to go far will ever know how far they can go."
-Anonymous
"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
-Anonymous
Take pride in how far you have come. Have faith in how far you can go.
From Jessica Gilroy
Athletes are driven by commitment. To their sport. To themselves. To Excellence itself. Commitment fuels the extra mile, the final set, the last quarter, the sprint on the line. Going on when the body begs to stop.
Life is the sum of all of your choices-Albert Camus
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.-Nelson Mandela
Education is not the filling of a pail, but lighting of a fire.-William Butler Yeats
Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison
How many opportunities have you missed because you were not aware of the possibilities that would occur if you applied a small amount of effort beyond what you normally do? --Sam Parker
How many opportunities have you missed because you were not aware of the possibilities that would occur if you applied a small amount of effort beyond what you normally do?
--Sam Parker
"Every day is a gift waiting to be unwrapped and enjoyed"
Success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone.
Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance
Proper Planning and Preparation Promotes Peak Performance.
Plan your Work & Work your Plan!
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."-Chinese Proverb
"The Will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." Juma Ikangaa, Tanzania
"The difference between winners and losers is that winners do what losers don't want to do." -Dr. Phil
"Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is." -Catfish Hunter
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." -Albert Einstein
Great Quotes from a Great Runner.
Steve Prefontaine
"Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative."
"A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself."
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift."
"I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting."
"Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off."
"What I want is to be number one."
"Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it."
"I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it."
"How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN."
"A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding."
"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement."
-Steve Prefontain
"Pain is weakness leaving your body"
-USMC
"If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough"
Steve Jones
"Run so hard you come in with bloody feet and missing toenails" (Sounds like Pre to me)
-Rob Decestella
"Man imposes his own limitations, don't set any"
-Anthony Bailey
"Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage"
-George Patton
A true legend in the sport, Welshman Steve Jones ("Jonesy") won the Chicago Marathon twice--in 1984 and 1985. The first time his 2:08:05 was a world record. His next crack at it (2:07:13) came up just one second short of Carlos Lopez's standard. Known as "The Fox" for his ferocious running right from the gun, Jones was also a pioneer at slightly higher altitude distance training, running 90 miles a week in Park City, Utah, at 7,500 feet, a good 2,000 feet higher than many of his contemporaries who trained in Boulder, Colorado.
Here are two of Steve Jones Quotes:
“I just run as hard as I can for 20 miles, and then race.”
"If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough"
"If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough" -Steve Jones
“I just run as hard as I can for 20 miles, and then race.”
"A victim is someone who has a seemingly insourmountable obstacle placed in their way, whereas a hero is a victim who conquers the same challenge.
Quotation from Albert Einstein's autobiography: “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.”
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." [Antoine de St. Exupery]
"Adversity is an opportunity to excel"
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