If you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control.
Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I’m still around.
Make each day a masterpiece. Don’t think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can’t today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.
Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.
There’s as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said – he’d rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
Every day, try to help someone who can’t reciprocate your kindness.
Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.
It’s important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying.
You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.
We’re all imperfect and we all have needs. The weak usually do not ask for help, so they stay weak. If we recognize that we are imperfect, we will ask for help and we will pray for the guidance necessary to bring positive results to whatever we are doing.
A coach’s primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.
The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.
Don’t think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren’t you doing it now?
Let’s face it, we’re all imperfect and we’re going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.
If you do enough small things right, big things can happen.
While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.
When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.
Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.