“You don’t win in life and you don’t win in athletics with softness or selfishness.”
“Every team is a house and we all live in it. When the season’s over, that house goes on the market. You can’t live in it again."
"No matter your occupation, success is determined by your daily agenda."
"I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water, and deal with them. "
"I have no problem eating Hamburger Helper every day. But, I also don’t have a problem eating a filet. But, I want to know that the ones that are eating the filets, if they've ever eaten hamburger helper?”
“Old people talk about the past, young people talk about the future, successful people worry about the now.”
"You climb the top of the mountain so you can see the world, not because the world can see you."
"How can you have the discipline to do what you're supposed to do every day regardless of your emotional level?"
"If we don't play hard, we don't have a chance."
"Talent is a gift, character is a choice."
"You have to be careful that you teach in simplicity."
"Be a fountain, not a drain."
"If you're gonna have a chance to win in anything you need to win at home and win half your games on the road."
"It's not what you've done but it's what you've overcome."
"I don't think that you can have great energy without great emotion."
"When what you say is echoed throughout, whether it be a manager or a guy off the bench or a starter, that's when it's working."
"You can’t just be tough on game day. You have to be tough all the time.’’
"If you don't work, I don't respect you."
"Talk as if they are somebody, act like you are nobody."
“If you don’t know the janitor’s name, you’re not an everyday guy.”
"You will have a lid on your success if you are not willing to sacrifice."
"All of this stuff in life is gonna rot & gonna fall apart but what we pass on to other people's hearts is going to live on."
"Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else!"
"Whether it is good news or bad news, tomorrow it is OLD news."
"Don’t try to be better than your competitors, be different. There's always going to be someone smarter, but not always more imaginative."
"No matter your occupation, success is determined by your daily agenda."
"Some of your best friends should be people no one cares about (janitor, lunch lady, trash cleaners)."
"Never let a week go by that you do not talk face to face (individually with a player)"
"The process leads to the result. How you handle the process, will dictate the result. You have to fall in love with the process in order to love the result."
"There is no such thing as high energy and low energy people. There are people with passion, and those without."
"Passion gives energy."
"I've never seen a guy who talks, who doesn't play hard."
"Don't make decisions based on where you are in life, make them based on where you are going."
"What can you take out of the bank? Only what you PUT IN! You always get what you earn in life, you don't earn nothing, you don't get nothing!"
"You feel the way you do because you think the way you do."
"The hardest thing in life to get is momentum and the hardest thing in life to keep is momentum."
"Success is found in your daily agenda."
“The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.”
"The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply."
"Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after an experience with you becomes your trademark."
"I've never seen a guy who talks, who doesn't play hard."
"If you're a leader with no energy, you're garbage."
"If you can’t measure it, then you don’t know that there is any evidence to it."
"All of this stuff in life is gonna rot & gonna fall apart but what we pass on to other people's heart is going to live on."
"You need to do the best you can...as fast as you can...for as long as you can."
"A plan without action is futile. Action without a plan is fatal."
"Your value doesn't decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth."
"Do you want to be known by your values or do you want to be known by your title?"
"You will never become who YOU want to be, if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now. QUIT TALKING AND START WORKING."
"Your dreams have to match your habits."
"Don't let yesterday beat you today."
“When you focus on problems you’ll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities you’ll have more opportunities.”
“What matters is people. Doesn’t matter your industry, age, gender or origin. What matters are the hearts, souls and minds of people.”
“True love has no agenda.”
“The voices you listen to determine the choices you make."
“The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, show up and go to work and do it every day.”
“Fight the battles in front of you, not the ones behind you.”
“Each day is Game Day.”
"Be humble, walk around everyday like you have a black eye."
“There is no ceiling to someone’s hunger and someone’s drive.”
"It's not what happens. It's the response."
"The story, prior to it becoming public knowledge, that's why it becomes public knowledge."
"Three things in life never come back once they're gone. Time. Words. Opportunity."
"Energized leaders can evoke energy from within others. But when the leader lets up a little, followers tend to let up a lot."
"Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything are two things that will always define you."
Read way more than you think you should
Write down everything about everything
Build trustful relationships for 10 years from now but connect the dots now
Never turn down an opportunity to work