The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.

The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs.

Fight only after creating conditions for victory.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position

Be a leader, not a superior.

Little Bird if you don't sing for me I will make you sing

Luck favors the bold. Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness. Act boldly at critical moments.

Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.

A LIE IS LIKE A BAD NEIGHBORHOOD

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

He that chastens one, chastens 20.

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.

You can and you must expect suffering.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

We're going to tear those boys apart.