Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

Drink deeply from good books.

Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.

Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home'

You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.