Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.

Confidence comes from being prepared.

We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.

You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.

It is easier to reach our potential when we learn the value of including others in our quest.

The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.

A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.