It is not the size of a man
but the size of his heart that matters.
- Evander Holyfield

There are only two options regarding commitment;
you're either in or you're out.
There's no such thing as life in-between.

- Pat Riley

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

Forgive

Forgive

That slight misdeed of yesterday,
why should it mar today?
The thing he said, the thing you did,
have long since passed away;
For yesterday was but a trial;
today you will succeed,
And from mistakes of yesterday
will come some noble deed.

Forgive yourself for thoughtlessness,
do not condemn the past;
For it is gone with its mistakes;
their mem'ry cannot last;
Forget the failures and misdeed,
from such experience rise,
Why should you let your head be bowed?
Lift up your heart and eyes!
-Anonymous

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I - Imagination
C - Commitment
A - Affirmation
N - Never Give Up
- Gynnath Ford

If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. - Zig Ziglar

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us. - Jim Rohn

The Optimist Creed, by Christian D. Larson

Promise Yourself
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
Promise Yourself
To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
Promise Yourself
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
Promise Yourself
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
Promise Yourself
To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
Promise Yourself
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Promise Yourself
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
Promise Yourself
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
Promise Yourself
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
Promise Yourself
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

110810 poem

If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don't,
If you like to win, but you think you can't
It is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost
For out of this world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the person who wins
Is the person who thinks 'I CAN!'
- Walter D. Wintle

102610 quotes

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay
enough to suit some people. - Kin Hubbard

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind
and nourish with repetition and emotion
will one day become a reality. - Earl Nightingale

102210 quotes

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,
but is the parent of all others. - Cicero

Content makes poor men rich;Discontentment
makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin

It is better to be hated for what you are
than to be loved for what your are not.
- Andre Gide

92510 quotes

Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

It's not whether you get knocked down.
It's whether you get up again.
- Vince Lombardi

It ain't over 'til it's over.
- Yogi Berra

quotes 91810

Cherish your visions and dreams as they are the children of your soul;
the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill

It is a psychological law that whatever we wish to accomplish we must
impress on the subjective or subconscious mind. Orison Swett Marden

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.
Those who use time wisely are rewarded with rich, productive and satisfying
lives. Robin Sharma

91410 quotes

It's not what you are that holds you back; it's what you think you're not.
Denis Waitley

Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything.
Bob Pierce

You were born to win, but to be the winner you were born to be
you must plan to win and prepare to win. Then and only then can you legitimately expect to win.
Zig Ziglar

82310 quotes

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.
- Bob Proctor

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
- James Allen

Other people and things can stop you temporarily.
You're the only one who can do it permanently.
- Zig Ziglar

81610 quotes

Real success comes in small portions day by day
- Denis Waitley

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.
- Elvis Presley

When you win, nothing hurts.
- Joe Namath

81310 quotes

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
- Mike Ditka

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
- Stephen Covey

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities.
- Norman Vincent Peale

80710 quotes

Old golfers never die, they just putter away.
- Anonymous

The truth is always the strongest argument.
- Sophocles

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau

72810 quotes

Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve.
Anonymous

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today, and the realities of tomorrow.
Anonymous

72710 quotes

The best way to have what you want, is to want what you have.
Anonymous

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.
Anonymous

Failure is not the worst thing in the world, the very worst is not to try.
Anonymous

72010 quotes

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever we expect with confidence
becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Brian Tracy

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

71710 quotes

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

Opportunity does not just come along ...
It is there all the time ... We just have to see it.
Earl Nightingale

I realize that no wealth or position can long endure unless built upon truth and justice;therefore I will engage in no transaction that does not benefit all whom it affects.
I will attract to myself the forces I wish to use and the cooperation of other people.
I will induce others to serve me because of my willingness to serve others.
I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness and cynicism by developing love for all humanity because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me because I will believe in them and in myself.
Napoleon Hill

60510 quotes

Just Do What You Do Best.
- Red Auerbach

There's No Substitute For Guts.
- Paul Bryant

To Give Real Service You Must Add Something
Which Cannot Be Bought Or Measured With Money And That Is Sincerity And Integrity.
- Douglas Adams

53010 quotes

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

You are what you say and how you say it.
- Bob Perks

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
- Stephen Covey

51610 b quotes

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
George Allen

Allright, Mister, let me tell you what winning means
You're willing to go longer, work harder, And give
more than anyone else.
Vince Lombardi

Winning is about having the whole team on
the same page.
Bill Walton

Attitude

Attitude
Is more important than the past,
Than education, than money, than circumstance,
Than what other people think or do.
It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
It will make or break a company, a church, a home.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice
Everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change the past.
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
And that is our attitude.
Anonymous

122609 quotes

Victory is always possible for the person
who refuses to stop fighting.
Napoleon Hill

Losers never know why they are losing.
They will mention injuries, the officiating,
the weather and bad breaks.
George Allen

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
There is no defeat except from within,
no insurmountable barrier except our own
inherent weakness of purpose.
Elbert Hubbard

122209 quotes

The important thing is this:
To be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos

Scars remind us where we've been –
They don't have to dictate where we are going.
Joe Mantegna

When you develop your ability to balance your emotions,
Unexpected problems won't knock you off balance as easily,
And you'll return more quickly to a positive outlook. Peggy McColl

121709 quotes

Our real duty is always found running
In the direction of our worthiest desires.
Randolph S. Bourne

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event.
You don't fail overnight.
Instead, failure is a few errors
In judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy.
It is the cheapest of pleasures,
Costs nothing, and conveys much.
It pleases those who gives and receives
And thus, like mercy, is twice blessed.
Erastus Wiman

120209 quotes

Remember, happiness doesn't depend on who you are or
What you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Dale Carnegie

My success just evolved from working hard at
The business at hand each day.

Johnny Carson

You control your future, your destiny.
What you think about comes about.
By recording your dreams and goals on paper,
You set in motion the process of becoming the
Person you most want to be.
Put your future in good hands - your own.

Mark Victor Hansen

113009 quotes

The wonderful thing about the game of life is
That winning and losing are only temporary...unless you quit.
Dr. Fred Mills

If you have no major purpose,
You are drifting toward certain failure.
Napoleon Hill

Most people think that making decisions is hard,
Especially financial decisions, so they end up burying
Their heads in the sand, hoping someone else will make
Their decisions for them. The thing to realize is that by
Not making decisions, we are really making decisions anyway.
We are really deciding that we will continue to do what we have
Done up until now.
Clayton J. Moore

111409 quotes

Belief always precedes action.

James Allen

The will to do springs from the
Knowledge that we can do.

James Allen

Your behavior is based upon your feelings,
Which are based on your thoughts.
So the thing to work on is not to change your behavior,
But those things inside of your consciousness that we
Call thoughts. Once your thoughts reflect what you
Genuinely want to be, the appropriate emotions and
The consequent behavior will flow automatically.
Believe it, and you will see it!

Wayne Dyer


Within you right now is the power to do things you
Never dreamed possible.
This power becomes Available to you just as soon
As you can change your beliefs.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz

101009 quotes

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt,
and the dream will take care of itself.
You may be surprised at how easily this happens.
Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires,
unless you make them so.
- Marcia Wieder

Every memorable act in the history of the world
is a triumph of enthusiasm.
Nothing great was ever achieved without it because
it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter
how frightening or difficult, a new meaning.
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of
mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.
- Og Mandino

9309 quotes

Courtesy is simply doing unto others
What you would like them to do
unto you. - Anonymous

You cannot do a kindness too soon,
For you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day I look for opportunities to encourage and build
up others. When I help other people to perform to the best
of their abilities that is exactly more of what I attract
into my own life.

I look for the positive attributes in others whenever
possible & pass along praise for a job well done when it is
deserved. In doing so I am developing the habit of good
leadership.

I keep clearly in mind the saying; you can't lift up and
encourage someone else without building up yourself in the
process. - Josh Hinds

Commonwealth Stadium

There is only one corner of the universe
You can be certain of improving,
And that's your own self.
- Aldous Huxley


Don't bother about genius.
Don't worry about being clever.
Trust to hard work, perseverance
And determination.
- Sir Frederick Treves

People of character do the right thing,
Not because they think it will change the
World but because they refuse to be
Changed by the world.
- Michael Josephson

8809 quotes

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
- Roger Staubach

I never could stand losing.
Second place didn't interest me.
I had a fire in my belly.
- Ty Cobb

Football is an honest game.
It's true to life.
It's a game about sharing.
Football is a team game.
So is life.
- Joe Namath

8509 quotes

Always laugh when you can.
It is cheap medicine.
- Lord Byron


Our attitude towards others determines
Their attitude towards us.
- Earl Nightingale


I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness
That I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn

8209 quotes

'Twixt the optimist and the pessimist
the difference is quite droll:
The optimist the doughnut sees,
the pessimist, the hole.
- McLandburgh Wilson

Man is happy only as he finds work
Worth doing … and does it well.
- E. Merrill Root

The world is a great mirror.
It reflects back to you what you are.
If you are loving, if you are friendly,
If you are helpful, the world will prove
Loving and friendly and helpful to you.
The world is what you are.
- Thomas Dreier

8109 quotes

You are never a failure until you accept defeat
As permanent and quit trying.

Napoleon Hill

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;
But great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

Your mental attitude gives power to everything you do.
If your attitude is positive, your actions and thoughts
Further your ends? If your attitude is negative,
You are constantly undermining your own efforts.

Napoleon Hill

72509 quotes

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart,
And mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
- Joe Paterno

I hate to lose more than I love to win.
- Jimmy Connors

I can't imagine a person becoming a success
Who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
- Walter Cronkite

72409 quotes

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past,
In complaining of the present, in fearing future.
- Antoine Rivarol

You have to motivate yourself through pride.
You must push yourself mentally and physically.
A lot of people say John Havlicek never gets tired.
Well, I get tired, it's just a matter of pushing myself.
I say to myself 'He's as tired as I am,
Who is going to win the mental battle?"'
- John Havlicek

Every time I stepped on the field,
I believed my team was going to walk
Off the winner, somehow, someway.
- Roger Staubach

72309 quotes

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

Fishing is more than fish...
It is the great occasion when we may return to
The fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Herbert Hoover

Many men go fishing their entire lives
Without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Kentucky Basketball Coach John Calipari

Coach John Calipari joins the Wildcats with 17 seasons as a collegiate head coach and a record of 446-139. His teams have made eleven NCAA tournament appearances, seven Sweet Sixteen’s, five Elite Eights, two Final Fours, and one championship game.

“He understands the value of constructing a base including former players, alumni and friends of the program. He has proven track record there. He understands the demands of the job. – UK Athletic Director Mitch Barnhart

“When I go recruit a young man, I want to know what kind of heart this young man has. If he's disrespectful to his mom or anything like that, I walk out. We're not recruiting that young man,” – Coach John Calipari

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.
Bob Hope

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"
Brian Tracy

Jodie Meeks with quotes from the McGuires and Coach Rupp

Kentucky has found the secret of basketball, that it's five guys playing together.
Former University North Carolina coach Frank McGuire

I see no reason to end the basketball season in February just so some of these schools can start spring football practice early... Someday they are going to wake up and realize that basketball is here to stay.
Adolph Rupp on his Southeastern Conference brethren in 1934

They had it before you, they had it during you, and they’ll have it when you're gone....
Al McGuire on Kentucky Basketball Tradition

George Strait

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."
James Allen

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."
Barbara DeAngelis

"Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you."
Jeffrey Gitomer

Jamal Mashburn vs LSU 92

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen

Remember that the only time you really lose is when you're not giving it 100 percent.
H. Jackson Brown

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid

The Childs Family

Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal.
Anonymous

Success is not a destination, it’s a journey.
Zig Ziglar

Dignify and glorify common labor.
It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington

Elvis Presley

You only pass through this life once; you don't come back for an encore.
Elvis Presley

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image.
Elvis Presley

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times...I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend -- without a song.' So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.
Elvis Presley

(Comments from his acceptance speech given on January 16, 1971 at the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award Ceremony.)

James Lee Dunk

Certainly, the most memorable game to me was the Duke game in St.Louis when we won the championship. That one will always have a warm spot in my heart. Not necessarily because it was the best game we played but because it was the most important in my career while I was at Kentucky. Joe B. Hall

We have a rule. You don't speak unless you can improve the silence.
Adolph Rupp

This is it fellows. Forty minutes to glory.
Joe B. Hall
(to his players just before taking the court for the 1978 Championship Game vs. Duke)

Coach Paul Bear Bryant

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Paul Bear Bryant

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

Paul Bear Bryant


If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit - you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

Paul Bear Bryant

John McCain

Remember the words of Chairman Mao:'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'

John McCain

Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

John McCain

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

John McCain

KENTUCKY WILDCATS

Coach Paul Bryant

"Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike."
Bear Bryant

"The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the
communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief."

Bear Bryant

"I have tried to teach them to show class, to have pride, and to display character. I think football, winning games, takes care of itself if you do that."

Bear Bryant

Coach Adolph Rupp

"He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game."
Adolph Rupp

"Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working."
Adolph Rupp

"I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle:
reduce the number of your opponent's shots;
force your opponent into low percentage shots;
control everything within 18 feet;
eliminate second shots; no easy baskets;
point the ball on all long shots;
and prevent the ball from going into the pivot man."
Adolph Rupp

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