If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.

Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.

You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.

Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.

We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?

Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.

Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.

The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.

Make inner peace your final destination. Make happiness your life's purpose.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

History repeats itself.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.