A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.

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

Inches make champions.

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting

Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.