032512 quotes

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

-   Zig Ziglar

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win.

You have to feel you can win.

-  Sugar Ray Leonard

 

Anyone can support a team that is winning … it takes no courage.  But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

-  Bart Starr

032312 quotes

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you.  Don't listen to them. The only one who can make

You give up is yourself.
-  Sidney Sheldon

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, To make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
 -  E.E. Cummings

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

 -  Harrison Ford

I’m a little bit of a perfectionist.  I want them to dominate people,

It may not be fair, but that’s how I view these guys …  Trying to get them to that next level, trying to make sure that they understand you’re

Going to have to outwork the other teams.

-  Coach John Calipari

 
 

032312 quotes

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
-  Malcolm S. Forbes

Be not afraid of greatness:  some are born great,
some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
-  William Shakespeare

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
-  Howard Cosell

031612 quotes

First master the fundamentals.
-  Larry Bird

If you think small things don't matter,  think of the last game you lost by one point.
-  Anonymous

The idea is not to block every shot.  The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
-  Bill Russell

031512 quotes

We work to become, Not to acquire.

-   Elbert Hubbard

If everyone is moving forward together, Then success takes care of itself. 

-  Henry Ford

If you care enough for a result, You will most certainly attain it.

-  William James

T – ogether

E – veryone

A –commplishes

M - ore

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