031112 quotes

Everybody’s got to zero-in and focus on what we’ve got to do.

-  Coach John Calipari

Maybe now everybody realizes we’re not invincible, We’re like everybody else out there. We’re going to have to execute, Play hard and with some aggressiveness and intensity or we will get beat.

-  Coach John Calipari

Speaking of 1996, this is an exact script of what that National Championship team did… One non-conference loss early in the season. An undefeated run in the SEC. Entered the conference tournament and lost to an underdog in the Championship game, in New Orleans as the No. 1 team. You know the rest of the story.

Want to know something else? The last time Vanderbilt won the SEC Championship was in 1951. They beat a one-loss Kentucky team. You know what else Kentucky did in 1951? Won the National Championship.

It’s destiny.

-  Stuart Hammer

031012 quotes

 Never worry about criticism from the misinformed.

-  Coach Adolph Rupp

The star of every successful team is the team.

-  Coach John Wooden

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
-  Larry Bird

030712 quotes

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
-  Thomas N. Carruther

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

-  Denis Waitley

Winners expect to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

-  Anonymous

030512 quotes

But I’m proud of them. They’re a good group. What’s driven them, I want to thank ESPN. They’ve done one of the greatest services for my program by having that advertisement that keeps showing Indiana beating us. Every time my team watches TV and on ESPN they see it, they just shake their head. Makes ‘em mad. Thank you, ESPN.

-  Coach John Calipari

We get mad every time we see that. It shows like 100 times on ESPN a day. That really makes us mad. It’s just the way we lost. We never want to have that feeling again. That was a tough loss to swallow. Everybody was mad, everybody for the whole week because we lost. We just don’t want to have that feeling again.

-  Anthony Davis

Oh, I turn the TV off. Every time. I know I turn the TV off every time I see that commercial. I almost sold my iPhone, my iPad. I turn the TV off.

-  Terrence Jones

022912 quotes

View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it.  Expect it. Anticipate it.

-  Denis Waitley

A leader is simply one, who goes ahead, One who sets the pace, paves the way.

-  Charlie “Tremendous” Jones

The first person you are accountable to is yourself. It's imperative that you know what your key values are, Because they set the standards for how you will do business.

-  Marilyn Strong

022512 quotes

 

Great hopes make great men.
-  Thomas Fuller

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking

of yourself as a success.
-  Dr. Joyce Brothers

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how to respond to them.
-  Epictetus

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

-  Napoleon Hill

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
-  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, The achiever… the one who recognizes the challenges And does something about it.

-  Vince Lombardi

022112 quotes

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

-  Napoleon Hill

Formal education will make you a living; Self-education will make you a fortune.

-  Jim Rohn 
 

Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action,

Not through endless planning to take action.

-  David J. Schwartz

021912 quotes

I like threes. I love dunks.

-  Coach John Calipari

I think we have got a good team. I’m happy, but I’m not satisfied.

-  Coach John Calipari

I just want us to keep climbing and we’ll see how good we can be.

-  Coach John Calipari  

Congratulations to Coach Joe B. Hall on his upcoming induction into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.  I had the grand opportunity as a freshman in High School to meet him and get an autograph.

021512 quotes

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

-  Napoleon Hill

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

-  Mitch Albom

021212 quotes

Basketball doesn't build character. It reveals it.

-  Anonymous

Talent wins games, but team work And intelligence wins championships.

-   Michael Jordan

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, But one man cannot make a team.

-   Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

021112 quotes

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

-  Don Shula

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, There’s nothing more to give. -   Sparky Anderson

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving It and staying with that plan.

-  Tom Landry

021012 quotes

Discipline is not a nasty word.

-  Pat Riley

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

-  Pat Riley

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it’s ready to climb.

-  Pat Riley

020912 quotes

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

-   Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

There is no such thing as a problem without a solution, only problems for which we do not yet have enough Information to know what the solution is.

When you have enough information, It is easy to solve a problem.

-   Jose Silva

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.

If you want to enlarge your life, You must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

-  Orison Swett Marden

020712 quotes

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
-  Robert F. Kennedy

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, Rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

 -  Richard Koch

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, The seasons, or the wind, But you can change yourself.

That is something you have charge of.

-  Jim Rohn

020512 quotes

Never let defeat have the last word.

-  Anonymous

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

-  Vince Lombardi

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

-  Richard Bach

020412 quotes

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

-  Tony Robbins

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
-   Earl Nightingale

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
-   Dwight D. Eisenhower

020112 quotes

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

-  C.S. Lewis

Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.

-  Bruce Barton

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
-  John F. Kennedy

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

-  Vince Lombardi

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
-   Vince Lombardi

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

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I am only one; But still I am one. I cannot do everything,

But still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
-  Helen Keller

It's not in the doing, It’s in the being. Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime, your greatest contribution to current and future generations
will be the happiness and joy you generated and radiated to those around you.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May love and laughter light your days, and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours, wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons bring the best to you and yours.
-  Irish Blessing