092013 quotes in honor of our beautiful daughter Allison who celebrated her birthday yesterday

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I’m possible!

-  Audrey Hepburn 

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.

-  Joel Brown

 

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Way above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then oh why can't I?

If happy little blue birds fly beyond the rainbow
Why oh why can't I?

-   E Y Harburg

091713 quotes

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
-  James Allen
 
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

-   Bruce Lee

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
-  Stephen Covey

Coach Nick Saban quotes following 49-42 victory over Texas A&M 091413

We knew we were going to have play this way on offense to have a chance in this game, I didn't think they were going to score 42 points, but I kind of thought they would score some points and they did.

I'm so proud of our players for the resiliency they showed getting behind 14-0, just slowly and methodically coming back in the game and building up the lead.

I know you (media) tried to make it out (to be) a 61-year-old guy against that good quarterback (Johnny Manziel) but we didn't have much of a chance in that game, We had a lot better chance our team against their team.

We needed everybody all in today, even though it got ugly at times, they competed and it was a great win for us.

Alabama Coach Nick Saban

091413 quotes

Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
-  Ralph Marston

It’s about being relentless is the pursuit of your goals, and resilient in the face of bad luck and adversity.

-  Nick Saban

A negative mind never attracts happiness or material success, but it will attract their opposites.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

091013 quotes

We are responsible for what we create, not the other team.

-  Nick Saban

Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
-  Rick Warren

Winners recognize and work on changing their attitudes and beliefs and expectations first, and then they easily and naturally take the actions that lead to the achievement of their goals.

-  Mike Brooks

090913 quotes

What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.

-  Albert Einstein 

It is nearly a certainty that some of your expectations will not be met today … choose Joy anyway.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our commitment, conviction, attitude allowed us to do what we needed to do as a team to achieve at the highest level.

- Nick Saban

090813 quotes

Winners are simply willing to do what losers won’t.

Anonymous

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Henry Ward Beecher

A golfer can’t dictate what his opponents shoot. He can’t wave his arms or tackle a playing partner who’s getting ready to putt. But he can always reach within himself to bring out the best in his battle against the laws of physics and par.

Arnold Palmer

090713 quotes

Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.

-  Ernest Holmes

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.

-  Larry Winget 

Faith is daring to put your dream to the test. It is better to try to do something and fail than to try to do nothing and succeed.

-  Robert H. Schuller 

090513 quotes

He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

-  Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving.

-  Albert Einstein

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
-  Marianne Williamson

090413 quotes

Dream big and dare to fail.

-  Norman Vaughan

A good football team relies more on harmonious coordination of effort than individual skill.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

-  Anatole France

090113 quotes

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

 -  Charles Bruxton

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

-  Samuel Johnson

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

-  Colin Powell

083113 quotes

You coach against perfection, not your opponent and you’ll find you win quite a few.

-  Nick Saban

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

-  Tom Landry

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

-  Vince Lombardi

083013 quotes

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

-  L.M. Montgomery

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal.

-  Thomas Jefferson

A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

082713 quotes

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

-  Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

Start where you are.  Use what you have.  Do what you can.

 -  Arthur Ashe 

Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it.

No matter how bad the situation may get.

-   Anonymous

082513 quotes

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.

-  Earl Nightingale

Your life is controlled by your thoughts. Your thoughts are controlled by your goals.

-  Earl Nightingale

The key that unlocks energy is “Desire.” It’s also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

-  Earl Nightingale

082413 quotes

Sow optimism and hard work; reap a harvest of success and joy.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds
are not found in polished stones.  They are made.
-  Henry B. Wilson

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a
section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
-  Dwight D. Eisenhower

082313 quotes

Time and tide wait for no man.

-  Geoffrey Chaucer

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this…

To rise above the little things.
-  John Burroughs

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can’t.

-  Napoleon Hill

082113 quotes

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
-  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

-  Mark Twain

A player who makes his team great is more valuable than a great player.

-  John Wooden

 

082013 quotes

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

-  Zig Ziglar

You are at the top when … you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future.

-  Zig Ziglar

Getting knocked down in life is a given … getting up and moving forward is a choice.

-  Zig Ziglar

081913 quotes

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

-  Henry David Thoreau

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
-  Marcus Tullius Cicero

Winners recognize and work on changing their attitudes and beliefs and expectations first, and then they easily and naturally take the actions that lead to the achievement of their goals.

-  Mike Brooks

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Whatever you hold in your consciousness you will manifest in your life.

-  Mike Brooks

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.

-  John Eliot

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

-  Booker T. Washington

081713 quotes

All top performers expect that they are going to succeed, and because of this they consistently take the actions that lead them to achieve their goals and become successful.

-  Mike Brooks

You're in a position here where we have a lot of players that really haven't lost much, (Alabama is 49-5 over the past four seasons) they have to really want to be good for the sake of being good.

-  Coach Nick Saban

Most other teams are out there saying we've got something to prove, well, this team has something to prove. It's a lot more difficult not to be a little bit complacent, not to keep the same accountability to being successful that's necessary. You've got to challenge yourself every day. You've got to challenge each other.

 -  Coach Nick Saban

081613 quotes

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

-  Henry Ford

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

-  Mary Lou Retton 

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a
trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with
the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
-  J.N. Fadenburg

081413 quotes

No one can keep you down but yourself.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

-  Jim Rohn

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid.  Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

-  Nadia Comaneci 

081313 quotes

Don’t be discouraged.  It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. 

-  Anonymous

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
-  Gilbert K. Chesterton

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
-  Henry Doherty

081113 quotes

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

-  Kathrine Switzer

I expect to be great.  I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to promote change.

-  Deion Sanders

The greatest discovery of this generation is that a human being can alter their life by altering their attitudes.

-  William James

 

081013 quotes

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
-  Vince Lombardi

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
-  Andrew Carnegie

It's one of life's great paradoxes ...  accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us is critical to happiness. Yet without a goal and commitment, life loses much of its value. The best we can do in the face of this paradox is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat and ready to play again.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

080713 quotes

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

-  Wayne Dyer

Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

-  Abraham Lincoln

Confidence sells … people believe in those who believe in themselves.

No one wants to be stuck in a room with other people who feel like they don't deserve to be there.  Stop wondering if you're good enough. 

Know you are, and start acting like it.

-  Simon Black

 

080513 quotes

If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible.
-  Bruce Lee  

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.

-  Virginia Burden Tower

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
-  Vince Lombardi  

080413 quotes

Success in this game depends less on strength of body
than strength of mind and character.
-  Arnold Palmer

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

-  Norman Vincent Peale

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team.  As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

-  Knute Rockne

 

080313 quotes

A goal is a dream that has an ending.
-  Duke Ellington

It is a glorious achievement to master one's own temper.
-  Anonymous
 

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.
-  Peter Jacobsen