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The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do.

-   Thomas Edison

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

-   Henry Ford

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future.

-   Steve Maraboli

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Always stand on principle... even if you stand alone.

-   John Adams  

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

-   Michael Phelps

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings
have relied on for centuries … common sense, thrift, realistic
expectations, patience, and perseverance.

-   John C. Bogle

Coach Saban's Comments following 45-10 victory over Tenn at Bryant-Denny 102613

I'm really happy, our players are really happy, and I hope our fans are really happy. I certainly appreciated our fans today. They stayed for the game and did a great job of supporting our team. It was a great atmosphere for our players to play in. This is a 110 year old rivalry that means a lot to a lot of people in the state of Alabama. I'm very proud of the job that the players and the coached did. We played especially well in the first half.

This was a tough, physical, competitive game, and I've been really pleased with the way the guys have come out the past four games that we've played and get off to a really good start. We played physical, played with a lot of toughness, and we knew Tennessee was the kind of team that could play with anybody in the country. We challenged our guys to prove who we were, and how we can play against them.

You get defined by what you do every week. It's going to important for us to be able to focus on this bye week to try and improve and to try and get more players to play winning football. Certainly, in this time of the year when you start getting guys injured and banged up, you lose a few guys and it creates an opportunity for a lot of other people. I was especially pleased with the way some of those guys stepped up today and played really well for us and we really just need to get better week to week.

We've got some big challenges and some stiff competition against some very good teams coming up here. This bye week comes at a really good time for us. We've got a lot of guys nicked up, could use the rest, and also use the time to help some of our players improve. That's going to be our focus for this week.

I want to say again how proud and how pleased with how our guys came out and competed in the first half of this game. We didn't play great in the second half, but I was really pleased with the way we pretty much came out and dominated the first half. We stopped ourselves one time by fumbling the ball on the one yard line. We had a couple turnovers on defense. We had an interception that Landon (Collins) made a great play on and ran it back for a touchdown, so I guess it all kind of balances out. I can't tell you how proud I am of the way our players competed in this game and it was a great job by our coaches.

- Coach Nick Saban's Comments following 45-10 victory over Tenn at Bryant-Denny 102613

 

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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
-  Conrad Hilton

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
-  Dale Carnegie

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication.

-  Vince Lombardi

 

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The major value in life is not what you get.  The major value in life is what you become.

-  Jim Rohn

An unwritten want is a wish, a dream, a never-happen. The day you put your goal in writing is the day it becomes a commitment that will change your life. Are you ready?

-  Tom Hopkins

Motivation is a fire from within.  If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

-  Stephen Covey  

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
-  George Bernard Shaw

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent alone won't make you a success.  Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready.  The most important question is … Are you ready?

-  Johnny Carson 

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

-  Anthony Robbins

People with goals succeed because they know where they are going...

It's as simple as that.

-  Earl Nightingale

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

-  Bill Copeland 

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I was really proud of the way our guys came out and competed and played in this game. We're trying to set a high standard for how we play. We came out right off the bat offensively and had a really good first drive and scored the first couple of times we had the ball and got them stopped a couple of times on defense. I was really pleased with the way we competed in the game.

Arkansas's players played with a lot of toughness, and it's a physical game. We knew it would be one of the most physical games we've played all year. They've run the ball pretty effectively on everybody, and they certainly gave us some problems when it came to that as well.

I really thought the offensive line did a good job of protecting the quarterback. We made some explosive plays in the passing game. We were able to run the ball, and we had pretty good balance out there. I'm really pleased with the progress that we made.

I think it's important that our team continue to focus on improving. I still don't think we played our best game. I think we have to continue to improve. It's great that we got to play a lot of players out there tonight. We certainly need for those guys to get some experience because we're going to need some depth. Obviously, as you lose players, other guys have to step up and play. We had to do a lot of shuffling in the secondary tonight to get guys in a position that they really haven't played that much. I thought they all did a pretty good job of adjusting and adapting in the game.

-   Coach Nick Saban

Comments following Alabama’s 52-0 victory over Arkansas 101913

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We don’t just play college basketball… We ARE college basketball.

 -  Coach Calipari

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make big choices in life. Because almost  everything … all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure … these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

 -  Steve Jobs

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Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.

-  David J. Schwartz

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 

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece … by thought, by choice, courage, and determination.

-  Matt Labrum

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The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.

-   Don Miguel Ruiz

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world.
Same world.
-  Wayne Dyer

Some people are never free from troubles, mainly because they keep their minds attuned to worry. The mind attracts what it dwells on.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

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Never play to lose.  Take risks, always play to win!

-  Anson Dorrance 

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

-  Tom Clancy

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

-  Jim Rohn 

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Players win games, teams win championships.

-  Bill Taylor

The secret of winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals.  I play not my 11 best, but my best 11.
-  Knute Rockne

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

-  Adrian Rogers

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Common sense is the least common of all the senses.

-  Doug Traylor  

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

-  Marcus Aurelius

You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

-  Zig Ziglar

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

 -  Alan Kay

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

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift.  Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

-  Wayne W. Dyer

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It doesn't matter where you are; you are nowhere compared to where you can go.

-  Bob Proctor

When we change the way we think, we change our lives. What most people do not understand is how powerful our thinking is and how involved it is in our health.

-  Bob Proctor

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply.
And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker,
to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being.
-   Bob Proctor

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Both success and failure are largely the results of habit!

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

-  Elbert Hubbard

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.

-  C. W. Wendte

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

-  Dietrich Bonhoeffer 

Develop within you a positive mental attitude so powerful that it seeps down from your conscious into your subconscious mind. If you do, you will find that in times of need and emergency, it will automatically flash back to your conscious mind. Even in the greatest emergency of life … death.

-  Napoleon Hill

The average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work.  The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

-  Andrew Carnegie 

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

-  Wayne W. Dyer

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
-  Epictetus

Do not expect something for nothing. Be willing to give an equivalent value for all that you desire, and include in your plans a definite provision for doing so.

-  Napoleon Hill

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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
-  Chinese Proverb

There are two ways of spreading light … to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

-  Edith Wharton

Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.

-   Napoleon Hill

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A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you have.

-  Gerald Ford

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.

-  Adrian Rogers

People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior wisdom to the masses. What's more, they believe they've been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider good reasons for doing so, but every tyrant that has ever existed has had what he believed were good reasons for restricting the liberty of others.

-  Walter E. Williams

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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
-  Lao Tzu

A man can seldom … very, very, seldom … fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

-  Mark Twain

One thing I know … the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
-  Albert Schweitzer