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

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.

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

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.

I just want to read and ignore all my adult problems.

Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

All I ever wanted was to know what to do.

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.