When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics.

The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.