Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation.

The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

Make each day a masterpiece.

If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

I never met a person from whom I did not learn something.