Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is.

Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.