Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.
There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.
Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’
It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
Hard work breeds self-respect.
The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
You can’t have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
Winners are not born, they are self-made.
Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer’s disease.
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.