Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

Ignorance is not bliss its painful and embarrassing

Daily mediate the Holy Scriptures.

I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.

In the struggle for survival, the cutest win out at the expense of the less cute because they appeal more to celebrities and, through them, to a live television audience.

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that's right now.

I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.

I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.

You can't have a back door that's only for the good guys.