No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.
Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.
My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility.
To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.
She taught me that it’s ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
Class is more important than a game.
Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.
Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.
Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.