“We plan, God laughs.”
"Your window to the world might be your own front door." - Blackhawk
"You get what you put in, and people get what they deserve." - Kid Rock
"If you want a family environment, you'd better put your money where your mouth is." - Gary Andersen
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." - Maya Angelou
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
"Chasing greatness is a life mission." - Giannis Antetokounmpo
“Communication doesn’t require talent." - Chris Ash
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." - Marcus Aurelius
"Bad circumstances and failures allow you to really grow and also do special things." - Chris Ballard
“Who gets the most out of less? That’s who the best is.” - Todd Bates
“We can do one of two things. We can bitch, moan and complain about it. Or we can work hard to fix it.” - David Beaty
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” - Bob Beaudine
"Lower the bar and you lose the winners. Raise the bar and you'll lose the losers." - Phil Beckner
"Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up." - James Belasco
"If you make it about yourself, you're going to fail every time." - Eric Berry
"There's a simple thing we always say: if you always tell the truth, you will never have to remember what you said." - Bret Bielema
"Training is like sweeping the floor. Just because we’ve done it once, doesn’t mean the floor is clean forever. Every day the dust comes back. Every day we must sweep." - Daniele Bolelli
"The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment." - Napoléon Bonaparte
"A genius. The man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind." - Napoléon Bonaparte
"All those experiences that we think are the hardest things in our life, end up being the best experiences in our life. If you approach it with humility and you look inward, they become the best opportunities for growth and learning." - Tom Brady
"Everyone is important...no one is necessary." - Hughes Bridges
"Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself. You will make an enemy of the overruled subordinates." - Dale Brown
“If your practices aren’t more competitive than the games themselves, you’re doing the wrong thing.” - Kobe Bryant
“Life is going to present challenges. Sometimes, we’re so ready to get past the challenge, we miss what the challenge is teaching us.” - Jaylen Brown
"The difference between what you say and what you do is the difference between reaching your potential and just having potential." - Kyle Brown
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - Gautama Buddha
"If you're humble, people want you to succeed. If you're selfish, people want you to fail. Humility also gives you the capacity for self-awareness, you can actually learn and be smart. Humility is foundational." - Stewart Butterfield
"Face your mistake. Don't run from it." - Earnest Byner
"Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option." - James Cameron
“You know your’e never perfect as a coach, but you try to be honest and you try to create that trust over a long period of time.” - Matt Campbell
“Don't mistake my kindness for weakness." - Al Capone
“Lazy people do a little work, and think that they should be winning. But winners work as hard as possible and still worry about being lazy.” - Lew Caralla
"Do the very best you can. Never be a halfway man. Even though the task is light. Work it with all your might." - Pete Carill
"Be ruthless in eliminating inefficiencies." - Cody Cejda
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” - G.K. Chesterton
“If the place is clean, and if the people are nice and if the food is good, you have a 100 percent chance of getting customers to come back again. That’s what I tell my managers. Don’t complicate it. You gotta give customers what they want.” - Gene Chizik
“Being able to hear it from your coach, rather than it just happening and not knowing why, it’s different. Your head is in a better place when you know what’s going on.” - Ian Clark
“Grateful for Everything, Entitled to Nothing.” - Jack Clark
"I think if you set your goal any lower than being a champion, you're setting the standard too low." - Dave Clawson
"The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer." - Henry Clay
“If you have more than three priorities, you don’t have any.” - Jim Collins
"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one." - Confucius
“I’ve always considered humor as not a sign of weakness, but actually a sign of strength.” - Lee Corso
"No matter how shiny the locker room is, and ours is shiny, if you don’t trust the guy on your left and don’t like the guy on your right, you’re miserable. But when that guy on your left is going to be the best man in your wedding and the guy on your right you trust with your life, it doesn’t matter if there’s an exposed pipe or paint chipping off the ceiling." - Chris Creighton
"Don’t do it unless you can rationalize why you’re doing it." - Jim Crutchfield
"Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you." - Mark Cuban
“I’ve always had the mindset of work hard, control what you can control, and you always write your own story. And I’ve always prepared that way, even when I was the star. That stuff never changed my approach. - Ronald Curry
"Try to leave a person better than you found them." - David Cutcliffe
"Pain plus reflection equals progress." - Ray Dalio
"Coaching isn’t about X’s and O’s, it’s about managing diversity and adversity." - Chuck Daly
"It's hard to tell people they're not doing something well if you haven't spent any time with them off the court." - Keith Dambrot
"Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark." - Jay Danzie
"Adapt. I need you to get comfortable with uncertainty." - Brian Decker
"There are no office hours for champions." - Paul Dietzel
"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." - Mike Ditka
"Every professional job done well requires two things: hard work and a lot of time at the office." - Jeffrey Docking
"Success isn't owned, it's rented. And the rent is due every day." - Dave Doeren
"If you don’t mind for the truth, if you don’t manage the truth, the truth will manage you." - Matt Doherty
"The more experiences you can have in different areas is extremely important." - Dave Dombrowski
"When you get knocked down be visible. When your organization is winning be invisible and let other people have the credit." - Mike Dunlap
“Everything you do is networking.” - Fran Dunphy
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." - Kevin Durant
“Have a work ethic where no job is too big or too small.” – Kevin Eastman
“Offer to do all the shitty jobs, that’s what people who matter see.” - Kevin Eastman
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"When it's your turn, when you have a shot, an opportunity, you have to be prepared for it and take advantage of it." - Herman Edwards
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
"It doesn't cost anything to be polite." - Patricia Elsbury
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be really good at Plan B." - Sue Enquist
"We don’t know shit. We assume we know it all. But we are all wrong." - Theo Epstein
“If you have practiced thinking about worst-case scenarios, then even if the unexpected hits, you will be better equipped to cope and make good decisions under duress.” - Tim Ferriss
“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.” - Richard P. Feynman
“It’s amazing out there how you can brainwash somebody. If you’re not careful in this country, if you won’t think for yourself, if you listen to news all the time, they’ll tell you what to think, how to think and how you do things. That’s why I say you have to make your own mind up and trust your own eyes and do it.” - Jimbo Fisher
"Can’t have “Yes men” around you. Surround yourself with talented people who are not afraid to speak thoughts and disagree." - Steve Fisher
"If you’re not getting the job done, you get to meet my friend called, the bench. He’s the best motivator in the world." - Pat Fitzgerald
“I will always play this game to develop relationships because that’s what makes a strong team." - Nick Foles
"My dad told me a long time ago that there’s a reason why the windshield of your car is bigger than your rearview mirror, and that’s because what’s out in front of you is more important than what’s behind you.” - Steve Forbes
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” - Henry Ford
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” - Henry Ford
"f everybody is thinking alike, then no one is thinking." - Benjamin Franklin
"My greatest strength is my passion and my drive. My greatest weakness is my passion and my drive." - James Franklin
"My grandpa always told me, don't wrestle with the pigs, you both will get muddy and the pigs like it". - Hugh Freeze
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Sigmund Freud
“I hate the word luck. I love the word preparation.” - Dan Gable
“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.” - Neil Gaiman
"There’s no need to approach me with a complaint unless you’re willing to offer a solution." - Mike Gambino
"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise." - Ritu Ghatourey
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." - Khalil Gibran
"Relentlessly seek your purpose." - Steve Gleason
“Start with the end in mind.” - Al Golden
"The past is history. The future's a mystery. Life's in the present." - Tony Gonzalez
"The thing that makes you most valuable is your ability to cooperate and connect with others." - Soulaima Gourani
"There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous." - Robert Greene
"All that matters, is what you do next." - Robert Griffin III
"Stay disciplined. Successful people do consistently what others do occasionally." - Craig Groeschel
"You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse." - Jon Gruden
"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." - George S. Halas
“The only way for humans to stay in the game will be to keep learning throughout their lives and to reinvent themselves again and again." - Yuval Noah Harari
"Do what you say you are going to do." - Jim Harbaugh
"Until you appreciate what you currently have, more won’t make your life better." - Benjamin Hardy
"Sometimes you can do everything within your power, and it simply isn't good enough. How you choose to handle that adversity is what matters most.” - Ryan Hawk
“Don’t ever forget gratitude. Don’t ever forget to say thank you.” - Will Healy
"The greatest gift you can give a player as a coach is your time." - Clay Helton
"Struggle is all relative." - Chris Herren
"The secret is in the dirt." - Ben Hogan
"It doesn't matter who you've got the next week, you don’t have time to pout. Nobody’s gonna feel sorry for you." - Dana Holgorsen
"You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better." - Ryan Holiday
"It's impossible for a person to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Ryan Holiday
The culture that works for Apple would never work for Amazon. - Ben Horowitz
"A player-coached team is better than a coach-coached team" - Tom Izzo
“If something is important enough to you, then you will make the time to do it.” - Taylor Jannsen
“We may not change the world in its entirety, but we each have the ability to entirely change our world and impact the lives of those in it.” - Taylor Jannsen
"Find the time to pursue your creative passion (the thing that feels like work to others, but play to you)." - Chase Jarvis
“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
“In weak companies politics win. In strong companies the best ideas do.” - Steve Jobs
“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” - Steve Jobs
"You learn from your dad well, and you pass that onto your kid, now let's keep that going." Ernie Johnson
“Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.” - Jimmy Johnson
“To win a championship you have to be aggressive.” - Jimmy Johnson
"Commitment has to meet expectations. You can't have expectations with no commitment." - Paul Johnson
"Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese." - Dr. Spencer Johnson
“I love imperfect people; people who don’t fit in a box or stay between the lines, but who’s integrity is greater than any rule book and who’s loyalty is stronger than blood.” - Stan Johnson
"Work ethic eliminates fear." - Michael Jordan
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan
"Winning has a price." - Michael Jordan
“Success turns we’s back into me’s.” - Michael Jordan
"In life, you can't be a selective participant." - Chip Kelly
"Everybody has the same amount of time during the day, and you can either spend your time or invest your time." - Chip Kelly
"If you want to be great, talent isn't enough." - Tim Kight
"No matter what you are getting paid, you give everything you've got and don't cheat the person that is paying you." - Jerry Kill
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” - Dr. Martin Luther King
"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." - Dr. Martin Luther King
"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." - Rudyard Kipling
“If you know the core values are the same, you always have that foundation. Best working relationships are like that.” - Mike Koltes
"You are either green and growing or you are ripe and rotting." - Ray Kroc
"Always give without remembering and receive without forgetting" - Gary Kunath
"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott
"Early in your career, opportunity trumps money." - Mike Leach
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less." - C.S. Lewis
"Good teams have good players. Great teams have great teammates." - Matt Lewis
“Manage your energy, be selective with your time. Time is the one commodity that you can’t buy more of.” - Marcedes Lewis
"When it is too tough for them it is just right for us." - Marv Levy
"If what you did yesterday still looks big, then you haven't done much today " - Damian Lillard
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on." - Walter Lippmann
"The proof is in the preparation." - Seth Littrell
"It's a long way up, and a short way down." - Thomas Love
"If you don't believe you can win, you're not going to win." - Mike MacIntyre
"I think if you ever stop listening to coaching or stop asking questions, you probably need to be doing something else." - Peyton Manning
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine
"There's only two types of people in this world: limited and limitless. You've got to figure out which one you are." - Derek Mason
"You're born an original don't die a copy." - John Mason
“America has divorce because families don’t talk, coaching staffs don’t work because they don’t talk, teams don’t work because they don’t talk.” - Bob McKillop
“The pain of discipline is never as great as the pain of regret." - Jeff Meyer
"Do small things with great love." - Mother Theresa
“There’s nothing like family. At the end of the day when the sun sets that’s all you have. Ultimately that’s all you need." - Derrick Moore
"You’re either a spender, or you’re an investor." - Chad Morris
“If you allow it, you accept it.” – Porter Moser
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami
"Under pressure you don’t rise to the occasion; you sink to the level of your training." - Navy Seals
“I can help you with your mistakes…but I can do NOTHING with your excuses.” - Tom Newell
“A mind is a terrible thing to clutter.” - Ryan Nicodemus
"You don't hire talented people to tell them what to do. You hire talented people to tell you what to do." - Brian Norgard
"The area of your deepest wound is often the area of your biggest contribution.” - Kary Oberbrunner
"Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction." - Kenichi Ohmae
"Just because I have more than the average man, doesn't mean I'm better than the average man." - Shaquille O'Neal
"Circumstances don't make you, they reveal you." - Chuck Pagano
“You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.” - R.J. Palacio
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." - Chuck Palahniuk
"Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something." - Bill Parcells
"It’s not who you think you are or who you want to be. You are what you do consistently." - Shane Parrish
“Every choice you make is a step toward or away from the person you want to become. No single choice will get you where you want to go. Only repeated steps over time in the same direction will move you forward.” - Shane Parrish
“I think we all have that responsibility to be someone that people look up to. You don’t have to be an entertainer or a movie star. If you’re just a friend to someone, a brother or sister … people’s eyes are always on you.” - Josh Pastner
"If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself." - Randy Pausch
"The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough." - Randy Pausch
"Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one." - Walter Payton
"Never take a job for money or title, take it for the opportunity." - Craig Pintens
“I don’t have to be right. I just want to win. It doesn’t have to be my idea. I just want the best idea." - Kevin Plank
"Too busy" is a myth. People find time for the things that are important to them." - Gary Player
"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle." - Auggie Pullman (Wonder)
"Most fear is a signal of where to go, but we actually look at it as a signal of where not to go." - Kamal Ravikant
"One of the keys to life is to just keep showing up. The dream never gives up on you. People usually give up on their dream." - Matt Rhule
“Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.” - Jerry Rice
“If you love your child, you’re going to discipline them. If you love your team, you’re going to discipline your team." - Mark Richt
"I've learned the lesson that if you're happy - stay happy, you don't have to go search for it somewhere else." - Mike Riley
"To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way." - Pat Riley
"Believe or leave." - Doc Rivers
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Anthony Robbins
“We are all stronger than we think we are.” - Robin Roberts
"Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance." - Alex Rodriguez
"People say it's harder to be at top than the bottom, but I guarantee you, anyone who says that hasn't been at the bottom." - Rich Rodriguez
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
"You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with." - Jim Rohn
“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
“Hope is not a strategy.” - Howie Roseman
“Empathy calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.” - Marshall B. Rosenberg
“When losing becomes devastating and winning becomes a relief, you have no joy in your life.” - Darrell Royal
"The days are long, but the years are short." - Gretchen Rubin
"Your talent sets the floor but your character sets the ceiling." - Rex Ryan
"Things do not happen for a reason. We get to give reason to why things happen." - Aaron Sadoff
"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"You will be remembered more for your kindness than your success. We each have the ability to be a light in the lives of others. It starts with kindness." - Lindsay Scarlatelli
"Players should seek honest criticism. You can always get better." - Tom Schremp
“The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.” - John Sculley
"You could walk 15 miles in any direction and there’s a coach as good or better than you regardless of where he’s coaching, and don’t ever forget that. Everything is overrated, even you." - Scott Shafer
"How many people does it take to be successful? The answer is everybody. How many people does it take to mess it up? The answer is one." - Shaka Smart
"The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage." - Robin Sharma
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw
“Time is free but it's priceless. You can't own it but you can use it. You can't keep it but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back. It’s the most valuable commodity on earth yet most throw it away. Decide how you’ll spend it or others will decide for you.” - Bob Shipley
"Don’t ask people to do what you’re unwilling to do." - Don Shula
"If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership isn’t for you." - Miles Anthony Smith
"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share." - Roy Smith
“What we did last year is already outdated. Now, how do we stay ahead of the curve?” - Les Snead
"Don't forget how you got there." - Bill Snyder
"Age is a measurement of time. Experience is a measurement of knowledge and skills acquired." - Brandon Sosna
"To have success you have to be better or be different." - Steve Spurrier
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"You can’t always control what happens, but you can control how you handle it." - Pat Summitt
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." - Publilius Syrus
"Don't die asking for a second chance." - Mark Tewart
"Fear of failure drove me every single day." - Joe Thomas
"It doesn't matter where you're coming from; all that matters is where you are going." - Brian Tracy
"Instead of pointing a finger, why not hold out a hand." - Jim Tressel
"You go the extra mile for the people you truly care about." - Robert Tonyan
“Not every reader is a leader, but every leader is a reader.” - Harry Truman
"It’s what you do in the dark, that puts you in the light." - Under Armour
"Be humbler about what you know, more confident about what's possible, and less afraid of things that don't matter." - Tim Urban
"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special." - Jim Valvano
"You don’t listen to criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.” - Jeff Van Gundy
“Don’t be afraid to bet on yourself.” - Fred VanVleet
"Your adversity is your gift." - Gary Vaynerchuk
“Until we clap for humility, we will not understand the foundational piece to success.” - Gary Vaynerchuk
"You never know what can happen when you just ask." - Gary Vaynerchuk
"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not exciting." - Dick Vermiel
“We are only five people away from anyone in the world.” - Lionel Vital
"I'd much rather work 90 hours a week at a job I love than 40 hours a week at a job I hate." - Bob Wager
"Top players should never be treated differently than the man at the bottom of the roster.” - Bill Walsh
"A team should never be surprised." - Bill Walsh
"Appreciate the now." - Sister Deborah Walter
“You either inherent a shit storm or your continue one.” - Chris Ward
"The big time is not a place; it's a state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become. "Make the Big Time Where You Are.” - Frosty Westering
"Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first." - Frederick Wilcox
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” - Oscar Wilde
"The people who have enabled you your whole life, have disabled you for your future." - Gregg Williams
"Your worst day is the best day for someone else." - Monty Williams
“Everything you want is on the other side of hard.”
"A hungry stomach, an empty wallet, and a broken heart can teach you the best lessons in life." - Robin Williams
“The most important skill in life is to listen." - Tyrone Willingham
"Once your ego takes over, your mind shuts down." - Ron Wolf
“If we treated people everyday like we do after a disaster, this world would be a better place.” - Jake Wood
"Responsible to the element, accountable to the mission." - Daryl Woods
"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than the day before." - Steve Young
"You have to honor the relationship before we can ever ask them to honor a task." - Alex Zequeira
"It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one." - Zig Ziglar