Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.
You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.
People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?
Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?
I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that’s what wins game like this.
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.
The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
It’s always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It’s what you do the other six days that decides the outcome.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.