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I'd rather be a football coach. That way you can lose only 11 games a season. I lost 11 games in December alone!

Abe Lemons

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men.

Abraham Lincoln : (1809-65), 16th U.S. President

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein : (1875-1955), theoretical physicist, philosopher

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

One may be old in years, but not in spirit, or poor in wealth, but not in ambition.

Anonymous

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed...every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Anonymous

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Anonymous

To get what we've never had, we must do what we've never done.

Anonymous

Knowledge is like climbing a mountain; the higher you reach, the more you can see and appreciate.

Anonymous

Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... PURSUE THOSE.

Anonymous

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

Anonymous

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Anthony Trollope : (1815-1882), novelist

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog!

Archie Griffin : American football player and two time Heisman Trophy winner.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They are going to find you anyway.

Bear Bryant

"If anything goes bad I did it. If anything goes semi-good then we did it. If anything goes real good then they did it."

Bear Bryant

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis

Either love your players or get out of coaching.

Bobby Dodd

The key is not the will to win ... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

Bobby Knight : American Basketball Coach

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

Boris Becker

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of it.

Brian Tracy

A successful coach needs a patient wife, loyal dog, and great quarterback - and not necessarily in that order.

Bud Grant

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakens"

Carl Jung

Most games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Dag Hammarskjold

The man who goes the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets from shore.

Dale Carnegie

Overcoaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

Dean Smith

There's always going to be someone out there who is more talented, but there is no reason why they should outwork you.

Derek Jeter

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

Don Shula

EXCUSES are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Don Wilder

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Dwight David Eisenhower

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

Earl Campbell

It's our attitude in life that determines life's attitude toward us.

Earl Nightingale

Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you.

Eddie Robinson

Coaching is a profession of love. You can't coach people unless you love them.

Eddie Robinson

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Elbert Hubbard

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience.You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember the fight is won or lost far away from the bright lights, far away from the clicking cameras. Its won out there running on the roads at dawn, hitting the heavy bag untill your knuckles bleed, getting pounded by a sparring partner untill you cant remember you name. People think it's easy, its far from easy. But nothing easy is worthwhile. Work harder than you ever did before, but work smart as well. Like Ali, he worked hard, but he was smart.

Enda McNulty : To David Gillick in L.A. training camp in LA in March-April 07

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

Eric Lindros

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld : (1613-1680), writer, moralist

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.

George Halas

If you expect to achieve results that you never in your past accomplished, then you must expect to employ yourself at a level never before attempted. People keep looking for the secret of success. The secret lies in the mirror.

George Zalucki

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins ... not through strength but by perseverance.

H. Jackson Brown

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

Harvey Penick

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

Homer Rice

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see. And pursuing that vision.

Howard Schultz

A champion is one who gets up when he can't.

Jack Dempsey

We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?

Jesse Owens

We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.

Jesse Owens

Friendships are born on the field of athletic strife and the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Jesse Owens

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing it.

Jesse Owens

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Jesse Owens

I always loved running - it was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Jesse Owens

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

Jesse Owens

One chance is all you need.

Jesse Owens

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and a laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just 10 seconds.

Jesse Owens

She (Minnie Ruth Solomon) was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count. I fell in love with her from the first time we ever talked, and a little bit more every time after that until I thought I couldn't love her more than I did. And when I felt that way, I asked her to marry me ... and she said she would.

Jesse Owens

I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

Jesse Owens : on junior high track coach Charles Riley

Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.

Jesse Owens

He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

Jesse Owens : on Ohio State University track coach Larry Snyder

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close.

Jesse Owens

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

Jesse Owens

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' -- the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete -- is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.

Jesse Owens

I fought, I fought harder ... but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.

Jesse Owens : on almost not qualifying for the Olympic finals in long jump

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

Jesse Owens : on his final leap in long-jump competition, a record-breaking 26 feet, 5 and 5/16

It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere -- one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.

Jesse Owens : on his Olympic achievements

After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.

Jesse Owens

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

Jesse Owens : on his race with thoroughbred Julio McCaw at halftime of a soccer game

The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear.

Jesse Owens : on how to beat a racehorse

Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly -- That was big time for blacks.

Jesse Owens : on being the bandleader for a 12-piece black touring band

We'd get into these little towns and tell 'em to get out the fastest guy in town and Jesse Owens would spot him ten yards and beat him.

Jesse Owens : on participating in baseball games as the grand finale

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

Jesse Owens : on his offers for work 14 years after his Olympic victories

It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

Jesse Owens : on his world records being beaten

The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers -- weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies.

Jesse Owens : said to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, American sprinters who had given the black power salute while receiving their Olympic medals

I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

Jesse Owens : from his 1972 book : I Have Changed

In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.

Jesse Owens

"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness."

Jim Rohn

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least

johann Wolfgang van Goethe

Failures are divided into two classes-those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.

John Charles Sak

Change is the Law of Life and those who only look to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.

John Robinson

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

John Wooden

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes it meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Keshavan Nair

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take...integrity is taking it.

M.H. McKee

Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.

Magic Johnson

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

Magic Johnson

They rattle off 20 different reasons why they didn't do something. Almost 100% of the time they were capable of doing exactly what they said they should have done. But they didn't. So they couldn't. It's like trains going in and out of the depot. They've got no destinations, but they keep moving.

Mark Spitz

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player.

Mia Hamm : American female soccer star.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Michael Jordan

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Jordan

Players always want to blame someone else or some circumstance out of their control for their problems…..A lot of players are afraid to admit they have bad nights, but everybody has bad nights, and it's how you rebound from these bad nights that dictates what kind of player you are going to be!

Michael Jordan

You worked -- possibly slaved is the word -- Jesse, for many years for this. And you deserve everything they're saying about you and doing for you.

Minnie Ruth Solomon : about her husband Jesse Owens

I'm going to show you how great I am.

Muhammad Ali

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Muhammed Ali

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Nelson Mandela

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Nelson Mandela

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Nelson Mandela

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Nelson Mandela

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

Nelson Mandela

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Nelson Mandela

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Nelson Mandela

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

Nelson Mandela

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Nelson Mandela

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

Nelson Mandela

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nelson Mandela

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until its done.

Nelson Mandela

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Nelson Mandela

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Nelson Mandela

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Nelson Mandela

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Nelson Mandela

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Nelson Mandela

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Nelson Mandela

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Nelson Mandela

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Nelson Mandela

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Nelson Mandela

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Nelson Mandela

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. : (1841-1935), associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving... we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it... but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It's a very bad thing to become accustomed to good luck.

Publilius Syrus

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the greatest compensations in life that no one can help another without helping themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Owens doesn't so much take over [a room] as envelop it. He is friendly to all, outgoing and gracious.

Reporter : about Jesse's public speaking skills

The only thing that stands between a person and what they want from life is often the will to try it and the faith to believe it's possible.

Rich Devos

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why ... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Robert Francis Kennedy

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Roger Bannister

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Roy Keane

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Segoyewatha

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Somerset Maugham

Courage is the door that can only be opened from the inside.

Terry Neil

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt : (1858-1919), 26th U.S. President

No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part

Tiger Woods

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

Tom Landry

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Robbins

Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.

Tommy Prothro

Overprepare so that you don't underperform

Vince Lombardi

Confidence is contagious, so is lack of confidence.

Vince Lombardi

Coaches who can outline plays on a blackboard are a dime a dozen. The ones who can win get inside their players and motivate.

Vince Lombardi

“A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for things that are worthwhile. Then it can be done” Vince Lombardi.

Vince Lombardi

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

You will always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.

William A. Ward

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

Kites rise highest against the wind...not with it.

Winston Churchill

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