I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

You will never outperform your inner circle.

The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.

Don't whine, complain, or make excuses.

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.

When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.

I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.