Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying

My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

Drink deeply from good books.

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed