Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.

The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.

No matter that I have inhibitions enough to fill all my pockets; I keep trying , hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.