Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.

I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

I think you've got to pay the price for anything that's worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You've got to pay the price to win, you've got to pay the price to stay on top, and you 've got to pay the price to get there.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.