QUOTES for IMPACT

The following are 500+ quotes that ‘meant something to me’ when I read them.
I believed they were worth keeping and believe they are worth sharing.

1. "Culture defeats Strategy." Nick Saban

2. "Your playbook is only as good as your leaders." Navy Seals

3. "Trust is built up in drops and lost in buckets." Mike Pettine

4. "You must be able to define it to achieve it."

5. "It’s the start that stops most people." Rob Gilbert

6. "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to
become the best you are capable of becoming." John Wooden

7. "It's not the best team that wins - its the team that plays the best." Brian Cain

8. "There cannot be rules without relationships." Bob Wager

9. "There are winners and learners."

10. False-"when things change I will be happy." True-"when I am happy things will change."

11. 5 words that will kill any dream- "I don't feel like it.

12. H.O.P.E. - "Hold on pain ends."

13. "Nothing is hard, only time-consuming."

14. "To guarantee success do more than is expected."

15. "I've learned this about coaching: you don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat."
Darryl Royal

16. "The most important ability is dependability."

17. WARNING- "If your coach has coached you about LACK OF EFFORT--you will not make it to the
next level." Rob Gilbert

18. "Today's pain--tomorrow's gain."

19. "If you don't go, you won't know." Just showing up is half the battle.
T. Friedman, NY Times columnist

20. "When going thru hell keep going." Churchill

21. "Everything is important--nothing is special."

22. "Act the way you want to become and you will become the way you want to act."
23. "If they're patting you on the back too much...it's only to find a soft spot for the knife."

24. "Your I WILL is more important than your IQ."

25. "Do you--GET TO or HAVE TO?" What's your mindset?

26. DIET--"Do you eat for NUTRITION or do you eat for TASTE?"

27. "Don't count the days--make the days COUNT."

28. FIRST PRIORITY..."To the best player on the team or the best player FOR the team?"

29. PROBLEMS…"Do you get frustrated or do you get fascinated."

30. "If it doesn't CHALLENGE you it doesn't CHANGE you."

31. "Practice PATIENCE."

32. "It takes a ton of effort to do things effortlessly."

33. "Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."

34. "Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking potential." Churchill

35. "Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." George Halas

36. "Lead by EXAMPLE--inspire by ACCOMPLISHMENT."

37. "Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours." Zigler

38. "Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader."
Peter Burwash - tennis player & coach

39. "Get away from the concept of putting in half the effort and expecting full results." Rolsey

40. "If you want to hide something from the average person put it behind a great challenge."
Michael Spence professional speaker

41. "We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation." Rohn

42. "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British P. Minister

43. "Motivation gets you going--Habit gets you there!" Ziglar (1926-2012)

44. To develop a habit--"The first 10 days are unbearable-the next 10 are uncomfortable-the last 10 you
are unstoppable."

45. "No one's ever gotten better by practicing less."

46. "Changing the culture of a football program is not for the faint of heart."

47. "Leaders eat last."

48. "You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of success is
found in your daily routine." J. Maxwell

49. "When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow."
Shauna Niequist author

50. "What one can be one MUST be." Maslow

51. "The secret to winning football games is working more as a team less as individuals. I play not my 11
best but my best 11." K. Rockne

52. THE LIFE-CHANGING CHOICE: "Are you going to talk yourself out of it OR act yourself INTO
IT? Rob Gilbert

53. "Winners lose more than losers lose." Rob Gilbert

54. "Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have 24 hour days." Zigler

55. "People are rewarded in public for what they practiced for years in private." Tony Robbins

56. "Wake up with determination. Go to sleep with satisfaction."

57. "You don't get the culture you want--you get the culture you create."

58. "Undisciplined people are slaves to their own weaknesses."

59. "I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I haven't." Lucille Ball (1911-1989)

60. "Practice like you're last. Perform like you're first."

61. "Confidence comes from competence." Professor J. McCarthy Montclair

62. "Aim small--miss small." from movie, American Sniper

63. "Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn."

64. "Confidence is not 'I hope they like me'...confidence is, 'I will be fine if they don't'

65. "Once you wrestled, everything else is easy." Dan Gable

66. H.O.P.E. - "Help other people excel."

67. "You earn your trophies at practice. You pick them up at competitions."
JJ Hester-owner of Hester Academy of Irish Dance

68. "When you lose--don't lose the lesson."

69. "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." Henri Cartier-Bresson photographer
70. "Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you can't stand."
Samuel Goldwyn film producer

71. "The things that are going to happen have already happened." T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

72. "What is it going to be -- reasons or results?" Art Turock leadership expert

73. "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
Jules Renard (1864-1910) French dramatist

74. "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
Robert Brault writer

75. "We become whom we hang out with." Tom Peters business speaker & writer.

76. "We become the average of our 5 best friends. We will be 2.5."

77. "Success is going from failure to failure w/o losing your enthusiasm." Churchill

78. "You only find oil when you drill wells." John Masters Canadian wildcatter

79. "Facts TELL--Stories SELL."

80. "Success seems to be connected w/ ACTION. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes,
but they don't quit." Conrad Hilton

81. "What matters most isn't what is under the tree. What matters most is who is around the tree."

82. "Most people do not listen w/ the intent to understand; they listen w/ the intent to reply." S. Covey

83. "Develop don't destroy." if you coach kids this is your first & most important job

84. "One person cannot make a team. One person can break a team."

85. "You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great."
Les Brown motivational speaker

86. "I am too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener."

87. "In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car." L. Summers former pres. Harvard

88. "Leadership is an ACTION, not a word." Robert Cooley American banker

89. "Whatever hurts my brother hurts me. Whatever helps my brother helps me."
motto St. Benedict's Prep NJ

90. "Winners call it a sacrifice. Losers call it punishment." Alan Stein strength/cond. Coach

91. The two most influential words when trying to convince others... "you and because"

92. "Diligence beats intelligence every single day." M. Wolfanger fitness model
93. "TODAY + TODAY + TODAY = YOUR LIFE" Brian Cain

94. Coach: your job is to turn potential into performance.

95. "Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is." German proverb

96. "It is never too late for an excellent ending."

97. The eight most powerful words in sports psychology: "Act as if it were impossible to fail."

98. "Condemnation w/o investigation is the height of ignorance." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

99. "Don't throw in the towel. Use it to wipe your sweat."

100. Thought and thought about swimming...and he drowned."

101. "Intelligence is knowing what to do when you don't know what to do."

102. WE R > U (seen on a t-shirt)

103. "Work so hard that one day your signature will be called an autograph."

104. "We do not remember days...we remember moments." Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) Italian poet

105. "You must have the WILL TO WIN--not just the wish to win." Patty Berg (1918-2006) golfer

106. "Scars are like tattoos, but w/ better stories."

107. Question: "Can you give up what you want NOW for what you want MOST?"

108. "You don't win in the NFL w/o paying attention to detail." Mike Francesa

109. Nutrition and health: "Your fate is on your fork." Caldwell Esselstyn M.D.

110. "The only thing you deserve is what you earn." Tom Brands wresting coach Iowa

111. "Not exercising is like take a depressant pill in the morning."

112. "HIT or SIT?" sign in Wayne Valley H.S. (NJ) football locker room

113. "If you are not durable, you are not dependable."

114. THE PROBLEM W/ SPORTS PARENTS..."It is impossible to be objective about your own kid."

115. F.O.C.U.S. - "Follow one course until successful."

116. "Our strength grows out of our weaknesses." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

117. "The truest greatness lies in being kind." Ella Wilcox (1850-1919) American writer

118. "If it's easy to do, it’s also easy not to do."

119. "Tell me a fact and I'll listen. Tell me a truth and I'll learn. But, tell me a story and it'll live
 in my heart, forever."

120. "You are NOT a victim of your circumstances. You ARE a product of your decisions."

121. "Proximity is power."

122. "You become the average of the 5 closest people to you." Brian Cain

123. "The only reason I am a millionaire is I hang out with billionaires." Tony Robbins

124. "Surround yourself w/ like-minded individuals who are on the same mission as you."

125. "Success leaves clues." old adage about the importance of studying champions.

126. "You cannot out-train a bad diet."

127. "I saw the angel in the marble and I carved and carved until I set him free." Michelangelo (1475-
1564)

128. "Everything happens twice. First in the mind then on the field."

129. "If you want a quality - act AS IF you already had it. Try the "AS IF" technique."
William James (1842-1910) psychologist

130. "The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas." Linus Pauling (1901-1994) Nobel prize
chemist

131. "Willpower is the queen of all virtues."

132. "Willpower is a better predictor of academic success than IQ - a better predictor of leadership than
charisma."

133. "Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy." Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

134. "Does 99% work? If your spouse is 99% faithful it is not good enough."

135. "It takes a ton of effort to do things effortlessly."

136. "Bark less wag more."

137. "Father time is undefeated."

138. "Assistant coaches make suggestions--head coaches make decisions."

139. "No matter how you feel: get up, dress up, show up and never give up."

140. "I am not a tentative leader." George Steinbrenner (1930-2010)

141. "Success loves preparation."

142. "What is it going to be--reasons or results?" Art Turock Leadership expert

143. "Good enough never is." Mrs. Fields founder of Mrs. Fields cookies

144. "If you're not DURABLE you are not DEPENDABLE."

145. 10 words that will stop you from being unstoppable:

W.W.O.P.T. - "What will other people think?" W.W.O.P.S. - "What will other people say?"

146. "Food is the most abused anti-anxiety drug in America. Exercise is the most potent and
underutilized antidepressant." Bill Phillips

147. "First we form habits then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you." Rob
Gilbert

148. "Adults devise a plan and follow it. Children do what feels good." Dave Ramsey radio talk show host

149. "Nothing tastes as good as THIN feels."

150. "People say I have a bad attitude--I say screw 'em." seen on the back of a t-shirt

151. "You are what your record says you are." Bill Parcells

152. "A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough." Ben Franklin

153. ARE THEY BUYING? "Coaches have the hardest sell jobs in the world. They have to sell their
players on THEMSELVES."

154. "Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons." Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

155. "I can wake up at 6:00 a.m. and be president or wake up at 9:00 a.m. and be rested." Jimmy Carter

156. "I will tell you about your tomorrow if you tell me about your today."

157. "Practice being excited." Bill Parcells

158. "The secret of life is this--when you hear the sounds of cannons walk TOWARDS them." Marcel
France

159. "It's better to know a lot and say a little than to say a lot and know a little."

160. "Tomorrow began today." (have a p.m. alarm to get ready for the next day)

161. "Anyone can buy a ticket to the bullfight. It takes a special type of person to jump over the fence
and fight the bull."

162. 3 WORDS THAT CAN KILL ANY PROGRESS..."I'll wait until"

3 WORDS THAT CAN INSTANTLY RESUSCITATE PROGRESS..."Do it now."

163. "It's not how good you are--its how good you want to be." Paul Arden

164. "Make sure the choices you make today will be the choices you can live with tomorrow."
165. "If you want great things you must give great effort." Milt Campbell (1933-2012)

166. "Listening is an act of love." David Isay founder of Story Corps

167. "Ready--Aim--Fire" not nearly as powerful as "Ready--Fire--Aim". Rob Gilbert

168. "An average plan executed perfectly is better than a perfect plan executed poorly."
Navy Seals

169. "You can't think and hit at the same time. A full mind is an empty bat." Yogi Barrea

170. "Respect tradition, but embrace evolution."

171. "Life is simple but we insist on making it complicated." Confucius

172. "I've never met a strong person with an easy past."

173. "You have not lived today until you have down something for someone who cannot repay you."
John Bunyan

174. "When you are a child you have energy and time, but no money. When you are a young adult, you
have energy and money, but no time. When you are an older adult you have time and money, but no
energy."

175. "TACT is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way we look forward to the trip."
Churchill

176. "Nothing gives direction to a person’s life as a set of sound principles." Ralph Waldo Emerson

177. "You can make minute rice in 58 seconds."

178. "I came in like a bucket of fried chicken and left with the bones."

179. "Work hard, people on welfare are counting on you." Obama (actual senior yearbook quote)

181. "Personal success = achievement. Helping others success = genuine accomplishment."

182. "It is no coincidence that success often runs in families or among tight groups of friends. Greatness
surrounds itself with greatness." Don Yeager

183. "Never trouble another for what you can do yourself." Thomas Jefferson

184. “Tomorrow is promised to no man.”- Walter Payton

185. "We expect special standards of ourselves that ordinary people reject because of the pressures of
high expectations." David Cutcliffe, Duke University

186. "Ships don't sink because of water around them. Ships sink because of the water that gets in them."
(don't let what's happening around you get inside you and weigh you down).

187. "God defines leadership by how many people the leader is serving."

188. 6-word formula for success..." think things through--then follow through." Edward Rickenbacker
189. "What is measured improves." Peter Drucker

190. "Be careful what you think. Your thoughts run your life." Proverbs 4:23

191. "It was a highly officiated game." Jason Garrett

192. "Almost right is WRONG." Seth Greenberg

193. "LISTEN and SILENT are spelled with the same letters."

194. "97% of the people who gave up too soon are employed by the 3% that never gave up."

195. "When the general is weak and without authority, the result is utter disorganization." Sun Tzu

196. "Be the most excited to play." Washington State promo

197. "If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive."
Sun Tzu

198. "Lions do not care about the opinions of sheep."

199. "The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the
crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of
freedom." Osho

200. "The two most powerful warriors are PATIENCE and TIME." Leo Tolstoy

201. "An army of sheep led by a LION is better than an army of lions led by a sheep." Alexander the
Great

202. "Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by CULTURE." John Abbot

203. "Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it."

204. "Hard times unveil hard men. Don't be afraid to step into the fire, that's where they sharpen the
iron."

205. "People will want you to do good, but never better than them."

206. The phrase "don't be afraid" is written 365 times in the bible. That's a daily reminder from God to
live every day being fearless.

207. "A leader is a dealer in hope." Napoleon Bonaparte

208. "If you don't find the time to exercise you will have to find the time for disease."

209. "Never hope for it more than you work for it."

210. "Approach challenges every day with a 'fist-fight' mentality."

211. "Winning coaches always look for the opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment
to the team is praiseworthy." Bill Parcells.

212. "Above all else, the one steering the ship must have CHARACTER."

213. "We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great. But, win or lose it's the competition that gives us
pleasure." Paterno

214. "A coach's success is measured not by the number of wins produced, but by the number of
WINNERS produced."

215. "Shout praise--whisper criticism."

216. "A coach wouldn't throw you to the wolves if he didn't think you had some wolf in you." Parcells

217. "The opponent should never determine your level of competitive spirit." Saban

218. "First WHO then HOW. If you don't know who to hit then why am I teaching you how to hit him?"
Parcells

219. "I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks. I fear the man who practiced one kick 10,000
times." Bruce Lee

220. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." Theodore Roosevelt

221. "Your best player has to set a TONE OF INTOLERANCE for anything that gets in the way of
winning." Jeff Van Gundy

222. "Coach says...." two of most powerful words in the English language. Choose your words wisely.

223. "Make peace w/ your past so it won't screw up your present."

224. "What others think of you is none of your business."

225. "What is a team? A team is nothing more than a set of relationships for a cause." Joe Ehrmann

226. "If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things
always happen from the inside."

227. "Nothing SIGNIFICANT ever comes without SACRIFICE." Malcolm Muggeridge

228. "You do not rise to the occasion, you fall to the level of your training." Navy SEALS

229. "You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that darks."
Churchill

230. "Most coaches are scheme rich and execution poor."

231. "If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room."

232. "Championship CULTURES are not comfortable not convenient. They require tremendous
commitment and sacrifice. - but are worth it!"
233. "Obstacles are put in your way to see if what you want is really worth fighting for."

234. "The #1 predictor of success...GRIT! The ability to persevere, overcome and move forward in spite
of challenges, failures and obstacles." Jon Gordon
235. "CULTURE precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the
victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they are champions." Bill Walsh

236. "Don't speak unless you can improve the silence."

237. "Be an ENCOURAGER. The world has enough critics already."

*238. "STRONGER thru ADVERSITY" poster motto

239. "Champions are born on a thousand invisible mornings."

240. "CULTURE eats strategy for breakfast." Peter Drucker

241. "Success is 100% determined by your daily actions."

242. "Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today." Tim Fargo

243. "My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed." Bob Knight

244. "Two things we don't coach, we demand BALL SECURITY and EFFORT. It takes no talent to do
these things." Tom Herman

245. "Your success in life will be in direct proportion to WHAT YOU DO AFTER what you were
expected to do."

246. "Your culture is your brand."

248. "If you want success figure out the price then pay it."

249. "You cannot connect the dots looking forward, only by looking backward." Steve Jobs

251. "Either you run the day or the day runs you." Jim Rohn

252. "Talent will get you 7 or 8 wins. Discipline a couple of more. Leadership is when the magic
happens." Urban Meyer
253. "Everything you do you do to the team." sign at Grand Valley State

254. "HABITS reflect the mission." sign leading to Eagles game field

255. "Strength comes from overcoming adversity, not avoiding it." Gordon Tredgold

256. "Your scars are proof that God heals."

257. "I opened two gifts this morning...they were both my eyes."

258. "Everyone talks about the weather, but no one wants to do anything about it." Mark Twain
260. "Sure I am of this, that you have only to ENDURE TO CONQUER." Churchill

261. "Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you." Rob Gilbert

262. "I never worry about action, but only inaction." Churchill
263. "A bird sitting on a branch is never afraid of the branch breaking because her trust is not on the
branch but on its own wings. Always believe in yourself."

264. "You have to expect great things of yourself before you can do them." Michael Jordan

265. Bear Bryant's 3 rules for coaching:

a. "Surround yourself with people who can't live without football."
b. "Recognize winners. They come in all forms."
c. "Have a plan for everything."

266. "If you want to improve your organization start with improving yourself."

267. "Your dad was a great man who I think of often. HUMBLENESS was his strength." John Krueger

268. "Anything built to last is not built fast."

269. "A fish always arrives at the head first." (importance of leader)

270. "Coach K wasn't trying to win his 5th championship tonight. He was trying to get us our first."
Duke captain

271. "LOSS - learning opportunity stay strong"

272. "As a head coach no less than 5 unexpected things will happen to you every day. It's how you
respond to them." Parcells

273. "He ain't an X, he ain't an O. He's a person. Pour your soul into him. It doesn't matter where he's
going on your scribbles if he doesn't trust you." Buzz Williams

274. "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less."

275. "Track every action that relates to the area of your life you want to improve." (Compound Effect)

276. YOU —> CHOICE + BEHAVIOR + HABIT + COMPOUNDED =

GOALS
(decision) (action) (repeated action) (time)

277. "Decide upon your major definite purpose in life then organize your activities around it." Brian
Tracy

278. "We all have two doctors--the right and left leg." Vilcabamba society

279. "Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you have a kingdom." Jack LaLanne

280. "I've studied successful people for forty years. While the diversity is amazing I have found they are
alike in one way--how they THINK." John Maxwell
281. "Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation." John Maxwell (failure is
good!)

282. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain

283. "There is no hope for a better yesterday. Make today great." Dabo Swinney

284. "A leader cannot take anyone to a place he will not go."

285. "Focus determines future."

286. "Average leaders have a quote. Good leaders have a plan. Great leaders have a SYSTEM."
Urban Meyer

287. "Feelings are not facts. Act differently than you feel when necessary."

288. "The key to high performance is FOCUS. To focus you must eliminate multi-tasking."

289. "Simplicity is the room I want to live in." Coach Herb Sendek

290. "The difference between a pest and a guest in an invitation."

291. "A clear conscience makes a soft pillow." John Wooden

292. "Don't be afraid to find mentors who don't look like you." Condoleezza Rice

293. "I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than I am of an army of 100 lions led by
a sheep." Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

294. "Be sure you put your feet in the right place then stand firm." Abe Lincoln

295. "What do you do when your wildest dreams exceed your highest expectations?"

296. "Everyone wants to shine like a diamond but not everyone wants to be cut and polished."

297. "Are you talking to yourself or listening to yourself?"

298. "We didn't overachieve - we over-believed." Dabo Swinney

299. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the
things you did do." Mark Twain

300. "Character accelerates the growth of talent." Tom Coughlin

301. "It has to be a mentality before it's a reality."

302. "Where would you rather be than right here right now." Marv Levy

303. "When it's too tough for them it's just right for us." Marv Levy

304. "Chance favors the prepared mind."

305. "Pretend inferiority and encourage their arrogance." Sun Tzu

306. "F.A.I.L. - first attempt in learning."

307. "E.N.D. - effort never dies."

308. "N.O. - next opportunity."

309. "LOVE is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." Robert
Heinlein

310. "The strongest form of motivation is EXHORTATION." Bill McCartney

Everyone wants to be encouraged. Everyone wants to have a support group.
Find the things they do well and have a pep rally. Don't wear out the things they do poorly.

311. "The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow." Robert Tew

312. "Motivation get you started. Habit keeps you going." Jim Rohn

313. "To blow out your candle does not make mine shine brighter." Steve Harvey

314. “The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes
himself.”

315. "Chase two rabbits - catch none." Russian proverb (eliminate distractions-focus on 1 task at hand)

316. "Happiness can only be obtained by giving it to someone else." Jim Tressel

317. "Great coaches speak success into existence."

318. “We don’t talk about winning championships, we talk about being champions.” Nick Saban

319. “Success doesn’t come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It’s the result of consciously doing something
each day that will add to your overall excellence.” Nick Saban

320. “Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.” Nick Saban

321. “You’re going to buy in or you’re going to become irrelevant.” Nick Saban

322. “Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.” Nick Saban

323. “The one thing our program is based upon is finishing. Finish games. Finish your reps. Finish your
running. Finish practice strong. Finish the fourth quarter.” –Alabama OL Will Vlachos

324. “Make all your decisions based on winning.” (#1 thing Saban learned from Chuck Knoll)

325. "Failure is feedback. It's a lesson, not a loss."

326. "What are your top 4 values in life? What is important to you?" Gene Smith A.D. Ohio State
the first question he asks in every interview
327. "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes
misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." Albert Schweitzer

328. "What is the world's most expensive bed? A hospital bed." Steve Jobs
on deathbed lamenting not doing more than accumulating wealth in his life.

329. "They’re not just football players, they’re Seahawks." reporter talking about the culture of Seahawks
under Carroll

330. "I speak fluent Carroll." Seahawk assistant coach talking about how all speak Carroll's culture

331. "F.E.A.R" - false expectation appearing real

332. "You can't be courageous without fear." Rob Gilbert

333. "The values of football are the values in football." John Harbaugh

334. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love
can do that." Martin Luther King

335. "Just because you fail doesn't make you a failure. We are supposed to fail. It's part of the process."

336. "Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one." Bobby Knight

337. "Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication,
fearlessness, and love." Vince Lombardi

338. "A man can be beaten in two ways if he gives up or he dies." Richard Machowicz
.
339. "The game honors toughness." Brad Stevens

340. "You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness." Brad Stevens

341. "Mental toughness is when you find fuel in an empty tank."

342. "Toughness has nothing to do with size, physical strength or athleticism. Toughness is A SKILL
that can be developed & improved." Jay Bilas

343. "The way to get the best of the argument is to avoid it." Dale Carnegie

344. "People rarely succeed unless they are having fun doing it." Dale Carnegie

345. "This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure." Winston Churchill

346. "You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure." Winston Churchill

347. "The hallmark of genius is to simplify the complex." Brain Cain

348. "Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible." Stonewall Jackson
349. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong". Gandhi

350. "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill

351. "Physical toughness measures what you can do. Mental toughness measures whether you'll actually
do it."

352. "The only person you should ever compare yourself to is...you, from yesterday."

353. "He who wants to accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who wants to accomplish much must
sacrifice much." James Allen

354. "Vision without execution is a hallucination." Dave Anderson

355. "The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

356. "Leaders are leaders, not cheerleaders."

357. "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with
scars." Khalil Gibran

358. "The investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." Ben Franklin

359. "I've learned in the long run it's better to have players of character who will be successful in life
than unmotivated players with skill." Nick Saban

360. "FOCUS - follow-on course until successful"

361. "Great leaders are great simplifiers." Colin Powell

362. "People tend to become what the most important person in their lives believes they can be." John
Maxwell

363. "Success is like sausage. There is a lot that goes into it that isn't pretty, but the end result is tasty. If
you want success you don't get to push the 'fun stuff only' button. (Fix)

364. "The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls
are there to show us how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people
who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people." Randy Pausch

365. "It's being here that's important. There's no past and no future. Time is a very misleading thing.
All there is ever is the now. We can gain experience from the past but we can't relive it, and we can hope
for the future, but we can't guarantee it." Harrison Ford

366. "Don't sleep in your trophy room."

367. "You can't change what u refuse to confront."

368. "To lose patience is to lose the battle." Gandhi

369. "Complexity is the enemy of speed." Tim Fargo

370. "When someone tells you no, it doesn't mean you can't do it. It simply means you can't do it with
them."

371. "Success is focused energy."

372. "When u lose do an autopsy. Learn what killed you."

373. "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." B. Franklin

374. "Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty." T.
Roosevelt

375. "To sit at home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of men who do things is easy,
but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing." T. Roosevelt

376. "A soft, easy life is not worth living if it impairs the fiber of brain and heart and muscle. We must
dare to be great, and we must realize greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage...For us
is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us
rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out." T. Roosevelt

377. "The unforgivable crime is soft-hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly." T.
Roosevelt (on conflict)

378. "Monotony brings home the bacon." Scott Smith

379. "Where there is no struggle there is no progress." Fredrick Douglass

380. "The most successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking." Barnard
Baruch

381. "Our success will be determined by the sum of our choices." TCU baseball "Uncommon" video

382. "If you see it, you own it." Georgia softball

383. "If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a
leader." Urban Meyer

384. "Eat your food as your medicines. Otherwise, you have to eat medicines as your food"

385. "There is a big difference between a human being and being human. Only a few really understand
it."

386. 6 Best doctors in the world:

1. sunlight
2. rest
3. exercise
4. diet
5. self-confidence
6. friends

387. "You create your own universe as you go along." Winston Churchill
388. "Imagination is everything. It is a preview of coming attractions." Albert Einstein

389. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." Chinese proverb

390. "What you resist persists." Earl Jung (Law of Attraction)

391. "Energy flows where attention goes." (Law of Attraction)

392. "CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE SCHEDULED."

393. "Separation is in preparation."

394. "Your SMILE is your logo - your PERSONALITY is your business card - your trademark is how
you MAKE OTHERS FEEL - always ADD VALUE to others every time you meet and you will be
welcome everywhere you go."

395. "Always trade discomfort now for victory later. Being uncomfortable will always be an ingredient
for success."

396. "Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself." George Bernard Shaw

397. "You may be done with your past, but your past is not done with you."

398. "You have to have birth pains to deliver the baby."

399. "Treat people AS IF THEY WERE what they ought to be and help them become what they are
capable of being." Goethe (German writer)

400. "AMBITION is a dream with a V8 engine." Elvis

401. "Praise be to the Lord my God, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle." Psalms 144:1

402. "Mental toughness - how quickly you can get over failure. If it takes you a while to get over failure
you must play a sport that moves slow." Bruce Brown Proactive Coaching.

403. "When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn
something new." Dali Lama

404. "I'm a pretty good dog, but you have to pet me every now and then to keep me under the porch."

405. "You don't get what you want. You get what you EXPECT." Jennice Vilhauer (Ted talk) Life is a
self-fulfilling prop.

406. "TOUGHNESS is the product of struggle."

407. "If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and
would achieve nothing." Margaret Thatcher

408. "If you bat a .1000% you are playing in the little leagues." Warren Buffet

409. The 4 R's..."Repetition reinforces retention and recall."

410. "If you don't have confidence you will always find a way not to win." Carl Lewis
411. “The hardest thing in life to do is the same thing every day. But the greatest people in the world,
they do the exact same thing every day." Huston Street

412. "If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change." Dr. Wayne Dyer

413. "The time is always right to do what is right." Dr. Martin Luther King
414. "Make us choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong and never to be content with a half-
truth when the whole can be won." From the Cadet Prayer

415. "The bigger the challenge the better the story."

416. "Talent is common. To have the will to work hard for greatness is uncommon."

417. "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." Stephen Covey

419. "Dumb players do dumb things. Smart players seldom do dumb things. Which are you?" Bill
Parcells

420. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” Jim Rohn

421. "The culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior the leader is willing to tolerate."
Gruenter & Whitaker

422. "Your players are a reflection of you."

423. "No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning." Richard Petty

424. "Knowledge is nothing unless it is shared." John Wooden

425. "Knowledge is wonderful, but it is the transmission of understanding that is the very basis of
civilization. It allows human progress to move forward." John Wooden

426. "Beware the barrenness of a busy life," Socrates

427. “When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?” John Maynard
Keynes

428. "Question everything, learn something, answer nothing." Euripides

429. "After winning the battle, tighten your helmet." Japanese proverb battle doesn't end when
you win. The battle ends when you get lazy. The enemy of improvement is neither failure nor success.
The enemy of improvement is boredom/lack of commitment to the process.

430. "It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." J. K. Rowling

431. "It talks a smart person to write a book; it takes a genius to sell it." Dr. Rob Gilbert

432. "No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing." Ralph Waldo Emerson

433. "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." John Locke

434. "Always give without remembering. Always receive without forgetting." William Bar
435. "If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with
everybody watching." - Bob Ley

436. "Excuses are tools of the incompetent." Mike Tomlin

437. "I want to be the best at getting better." Rob Bell

438. "Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure." Joe Maddon, Cubs Manager

439. "That's outcome bias." Joe Maddon, Cubs Manager

440. "I don't like it. I love it." Joe Maddon, Cubs Manager

441. "Do simple better." Joe Maddon

442. "What gets measured gets attended to, what gets attended to gets done." Anson Dorrance

443. "THE MOTHER OF ALL ACQUISITION IS REPETITION."

444. “You have power over your mind–not outside events.” Aurelius

445. "How you do anything is how you do everything."

446. "Better is possible."

447. "There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick."
Belichick

448. "Fortune favors the bold." Virgil

449. "Difficulties mastered are opportunities won." W. Churchill

450. "If you want things in your life to change, you've got to change things in your life." Kevin Trudeau

451. "We believe being elite is not about how talented you are. It is about how tough you are." Urban
Meyer

452. "If you love them you are going to discipline them. If you don't love them you are going to let them
do whatever they want." Mark Richt

453. "The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood." Voltaire

454. "Culture's job is to energize the behavior called for by the strategy." Tim Kight

455. "Love the process and you'll love what the process produces." Jon Gordon

456. "Players don't realize their body language is like a billboard showing their toughness level." Ron
Naclerio
457. "How far can we go to get a tough culture without being reprimanded from soft people?" Coach
Robichaux

458. "Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." Marcus Aurelius

459. "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." Jean-Jacques Rousseau

460. "Defeat is the secret ingredient of success." Conor McGregor

461. "The competitor enjoys the difficult." J. Wooden

462. “Losers assemble in little groups and complain about the coaches and players in other little groups,
but winners assemble as a team.” Plaque in the Giants locker room

463. "The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." - Ray Kroc

464. "The mind is everything. What you think you become."

465. “Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.” Seneca

466. "Responsibility is the price of greatness." Winston Churchill

467. "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day." Jim Rohn

468. 'Success is focused energy'

469. "I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but I am judged by the times I succeed and the
number of times I succeed is directly related to the number of times I fail and keep on trying." Tom
Hopkins

470. "Improve yourself by other men's writings, thus attaining easily what acquired through great
difficulty." Socrates

471. "Arrogance creates a blatant disregard for doing things right." Nick Saban

472. "Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." Malcolm Meggeridge

473. "I think the best thing I've done is figure I know nothing and try to learn from everybody." Tom Izzo

474. "What's really been important in the success of the places I've been, is that the message came clear
and direct and everybody understood that." Kirby Smart

475. “In all my years one thing has never changed; You WIN with serious, tough-minded players.
That NEVER changes.” Tom Thibodeau

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." Aristotle

477. “We are myelin beings.” From The Talent Code

478. “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett

"Don't choke on gnats." Alan Trimble (don't let things that don't matter let you stumble)
480. "The more connected team will be the more committed team." Jon Gordon

481. "Success is on the other side of suffering." Dr. Rob Gilbert

482. "Without data you're just another person with an opinion." W. Edwards Demming

483. "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." Henry Ford
484. "Some guy bought 10,000 horses the day before Henry Ford created the assembly line. That guy
lost." Gary Vaynercuk

485. "You only learn by listening." Celeste Headlee

486. "High expectations are the key to everything." Sam Walton

487. “People that know don’t talk, people that talk don’t know” Gene Chizick

488. "Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
" Pat Summitt

489. "If you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well." Bill Parcells

490. "We all get what we tolerate." Tony Robbins

491. "I am going to get in this elevator and push the button for the 14th floor, but you are just starting
your career and you have to take the stairs." Dabo Swinney

492. "Life is growth. Progress = happiness. We are meant to grow so we have something to give." Tony
Robbins

"It is easy to get better. All you have to do is work half a day - the first twelve or the second twelve."
Abe Lincoln

494. "When everybody's unsure what to do, and there's somebody who fucking knows, everyone pays
attention. Someone who has certainty, even if they're wrong, will lead other people." Tony Robbins
"My primary question is just, 'How can I help?'

496. "The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business," says
Guber. "He's in the relationship business."

497. "Complexity is the enemy of execution." Tony Robbins

498. “A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you
haven’t truly decided.” Tony Robbins

“The only problem we really have is we think we’re not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to a
higher level- – face & solve them now!” Tony Robbins

500. “The results you get in life aren’t from one single decision, but from what you do after you make the
decision.” Tony Robbins

501. “I love quotes…but, in the end, knowledge has to be converted to action or it’s worthless.”
502. "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
Andre Gide

503. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” John Maxwell

504. "Bacon wrapped shrimp. It's my first favorite food wrapped around my third favorite food. I would
go to a banquet honoring the Somali pirates if they served it." Ron Swanson
505. “We don’t talk about next week. We talk about today. That’s all we can control. The rest of it will
take care of itself.” Bill Belichick

506. The process is- "I can only control that is what is in front of me." Matt Rhule

507. The process is- "Take the next step up the staircase. That is all you can worry about." PJ Fleck

508. “Leaders are pioneers – people who are willing to step out into the unknown. They search for
opportunities to innovate, grow and inspire.”

509. “No man ever steps in the same river twice; for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man."

510. "Can you believe it? They used to test H bombs on this beautiful property?" Eddie (Vegas Vacation)

511. "Failure's not an option. It's a step." Nike

512. "You're only one workout away from a good mood." Nike

513. "Greatness is earned, never rewarded." Nike

514. "Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated." Nike

515. "You either ran today or you didn't." Nike

516. "The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity." Bruce Lee (simple wins)

517. "When the going gets tough, I will be tougher." Ranal Currie

518. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down in front of your typewriter and bleed.” Earnest
Hemingway

519. "When something good happens you have a good memory. When something bad happens, you have
a good lesson."

520. “There’s a solution for every scheme. But there is no easy way to defeat a humble mentality
grounded in self-discipline.” – Bill Snyder

521. "Don't leave what you believe." Tony Dungy

522. "The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way." Gregg Popovich

523. “Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” – Henry Ford

524. "A man with experience is not at the mercy of a man with an opinion."
525. "The role of a leader isn't to come up with all the great ideas. It's to create an environment in which
great ideas can happen!" Buzz Williams

526. “Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.” Marv Levy

“One must speak to the soul, it is the only way to electrify men.” Napoleon Bonaparte

528. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” Henry Ford

529. I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. - Mark Twain

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think. - Kristen Wiig

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. - George Santayana

Call at least one person a day, every day, to thank them for something.

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. - Og Mandino

If you would like to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself. - Wayne Dye