If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.
Every day you teach attitude.
There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
Shout praise and whisper criticism.
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.