Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.

Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.

There has to be some self-denial.

I stayed on the track I wanted to stay on. I don’t think I deviated from what I’m all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.