When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.
Your either in or out. There's no in between.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.
The changes in your life aren't always what you hoped for. But they usually help you grow.
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.
When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.
Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.
Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important
All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
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