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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

-  Dale Carnegie

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

-  Albert Einstein

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

-  Zig Ziglar

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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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

-  Helen Keller

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity;
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their
dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
-  Lawrence of Arabia

 

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The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

-  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?

- Joe Namath

The process we’re at right now (after L.S.U.) is … Will we have the mental toughness to break through and be the kind of team we want to be?

-  Coach John Calipari

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We're at a point right now that we've got guys that have to understand that they didn't come out with the energy of the other team and this is what happens. If Dakari plays like he's playing, he'll play the most minutes, which is what he did today. Alex did some good things but there were breakdowns that killed us. When you get the game to five and six and then you have breakdown, breakdown, breakdown - it's back to 13 - you can't win. And that's the stuff we're talking about: mental discipline, which this team does not have.

We're fine. It's just again, they don't - we're playing teams that it means something to beat us, and we just think, Well, I'm OK individually and I'm fine.And when you watch it you say we're not fine. So, you know, we'll go from here, we'll go back. Johnny O'Bryant killed us. We started the game, I didn't want to trap. I wanted to see what could happen. Probably a mistake on my part. Should have trapped from the beginning of the game. They played the zone. We were tentative. They offensive rebounded; we didn't - the ones we really needed. Alex was the only guy going after offensive rebounds. They kind of negated anything Julius (Randle) had. They sent two guys at him. They played good. You got to give them credit. They played well. We don't have many teams shoot 50 percent against us like this team did. We're a good defensive team. Not only that, 10 offensive rebounds, and they create 13 turnovers on us and most of us were in the zone where they're just hands in the middle of the zone. But they did a great job. You got to give LSU credit.

Well, they switched the starting lineup, and I said that they must be playing zone then. So they went to a bigger lineup. But we didn't know before. I thought they'd play mostly man because that's what they play, but the minute they went big I told the staff they're playing zone. Normally we're better against zone than we are against man, so it didn't bother me, but we weren't ready for the physicalness of the game, we weren't ready for the energy of the game, the viciousness of the game. They beat us to every 50-50 ball, from the beginning of the game to the end, and that's why they won the game.

When the other team outworks you it's just what it looks like. And we made it--it was amazing we were in the game. We got down 16, it could have been 30. We fought back in, we got back to where we were fine, come the second half, do the same thing. I have to call an immediate timeout, like, 'Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.' So look, this team is in progress, a work in progress and I've said it. It's all about a process. The process we're at right now is, will we have the mental toughness to really break through and be the kind of team we want to be? We didn't show it today. So now we go back and it's the next game and we continue to work on what we have to work on for us. We--not doubling Johnny early probably got him going. The rest of it is, you can't let another team outwork you on every ball, every possession, every free ball and win a game. Teams are too balanced, especially in our league.

Coach Calipari’s remarks after the loss at LSU 1/28/14

OUTCOACHED AND OUTPLAYED … IT's CALLED “DESIRE” OR “HEART”

It’s called playing for the pride of that blue Kentucky jersey…

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-  Walter Bagehot

Are you waiting for success or are you going out to find it?

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything, and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

-  Thomas Fuller 

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Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

-  Scottie Pippen

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration... and expectation.

-  Jack Nicklaus

A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

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If you're keeping score, win.
-  Red Auerbach

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
-  Phil Jackson

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
-  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

-  Earl Nightingale

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

-  Frank Loyd Wright

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing in a solution paves the way to solution.

-  David J. Schwartz

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Great hopes make great men.
-  Thomas Fuller

We have the power within, but the secret of success is to employ our power and talents and be prepared for opportunity when it comes.

-  Walter Matthews

Before opportunity crowns you with great success, it usually tests your mettle through adversity.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

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Offer results, not alibis.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

The man who deals in sunshine is the man who wins the crowds; he does a lot more business than the man who peddles clouds.

-  Anonymous

There would be fewer arguments if we tried to determine what is right, instead of who is right.

-  Anonymous

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The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.

-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you’ve done your best.

-  John McKay

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

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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

-  Earl Nightingale

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it … then I can achieve it.

-  Muhammad Ali

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.  Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.  Try to be better than yourself.

-  William Faulkner 

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If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

-  Lou Holtz  

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

-  Baron Alexander von Humboldt

Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lays the opportunity to live an extraordinary life …the opportunity to change you.

-  Jim Rohn

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Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

-  Marcia Wieder

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all,
the world needs dreamers who do. 
-  Sarah Ban Breathnack
 

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.

-  Hamilton Wright Mabie

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Change your mental attitude, and the world around you will change accordingly.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

-  Frank Lloyd Wright

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

-  Ray Kroc

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A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

-  Joyce Meyer

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence.
-  Helen Keller

Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

-  Bob Proctor  

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Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
-  Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to
reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
-  Brian Tracy

The biggest thing they must learn, and they just haven't yet, is that every team that comes in has unbelievable energy to start the game ... and we don't seem to think that matters, Maybe I've got to start different people.

-  Coach John Calipari

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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

-  Haywood Hale Broun

Players win games, teams win championships.
-  Bill Taylor

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self denial. Also, and most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It is a state of mind that you could call character in action.

-  Vince Lombardi

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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

-  Stephen Covey

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

-  Anatole France

Golf takes more mental energy, more concentration, more determination than any other sport ever invented.

-  Arnold Palmer

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

-  John Dryden

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

-  Les Brown

You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.
-  Albert Einstein

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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

-  Frank Herbert

Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

-  Orison Swett Marden

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art… an individual masterpiece.
-  Denis Waitley 

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The unsuccessful focus on pleasing methods. The successful on pleasing results.

-  Brian Tracy.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

-  Abraham Lincoln

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

-  Leonardo Da Vinci

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I was happy when the people said,
  “Let us go to the Lord’s Temple.”

Psalm 122:1

I look up to the hills,
    but where will my help really come from?

My help will come from the Lord,
    the Creator of heaven and earth.

Psalm 121:1-2

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion.
    They will never be shaken.
    They will continue forever.
 Like the mountains that surround Jerusalem,
    the Lord surrounds and protects his people now and forever.

Psalm 125:1-2

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Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.
-  Euripides

The great essentials for happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

-  Joseph Addison 

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

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

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Winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do.

-  Lucas Remmerswaal

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
-  Abraham Lincoln

What is defeat?  Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

-  Wendell Phillips 

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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

-  Patrick Henry

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

-  George Bernard Shaw

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

-  William Faulkner

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If you can dream it, you can do it.

-   Walt Disney

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

-   Orison Swett Marden

Affirmations are like seed planted in soil. Poor soil, poor growth. Rich soil, abundant growth. The more you choose to think thoughts that make you feel good, the quicker the affirmations work.

-   Louise Hay