You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.

Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.