A gifted player, who is not a team player, will ultimately hurt the team.
All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can’t control what happens to you, you can control how you react.
Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability.
Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.
The purpose is to help, to prevent, to correct, to improve, rather than to punish. Criticism is not meant to punish, but rather to correct something that is preventing better results. The only goal is improvement.
You have success within. It’s up to you to bring it out.
Consideration for others brings many things.
One of the greatest motivating factors is the pat on the back, although with some individuals, you have to make the pat a little lower or a little harder.
You will never outperform your inner circle.
The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.
You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable.
Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure.
Bad times can make you bitter or better.
One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good.
No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.
Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead.
Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.
You better play together as a team or you sit.
People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.
It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally.