Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.

Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Don't whine, complain, or make excuses.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

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.