Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame. If an officer on your team suggested something and it worked well, give them credit. If it doesn't work well, you take the blame because you made the decision.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

You cannot antagonize and be a positive influence, and you will antagonize when you discipline through emotion.

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

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

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

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.