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.

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

Joy makes the longest journey too short.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.

I don't believe in fate.

A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it