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

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.

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

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 believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…

After only a few moments in her presence, he found himself wondering what dragon he might slay for her.

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.