Coach's Favorite Quotes

  • Good is the enemy of great. If you settle good enough, you will never be great." --Wiseman

  • "If you don't demand that your people maintain high performances to remain on your team, why should they be proud of the association?" -- Lou Holtz

  • "Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, Is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles." -- Brian Tracy

  • "You can't talk about sacrifice without mentioning discipline. Discipline is not what you do to yourself; it is what you do for yourself. Without self-discipline, we can't make appropriate choices." --Lou Holtz

  • "Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication." --Roger Staubach

  • "The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare." -- Thane Yost

  • "All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else." --Vince Lombardi

  • "One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do-it-yourself project." --Denis Waitley

  • "To win without risk is to triumph without glory." -- Pierre Corneille

  • "Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours." --Tom Hopkins

  • "Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not." --Elbert Hubbard

  • "The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well." - Sir William Osler

  • "I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. ... I firmly believe that any man's finest hour--this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear--is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle victorious."
    -- Vince Lombardi

  • "What you focus on becomes your reality." --Earl Nightingale

 

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