Thursday, March 15, 2012

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




Sunday, March 11, 2012

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



Saturday, March 10, 2012

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


Wednesday, March 07, 2012

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




Monday, March 05, 2012

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



Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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



Saturday, February 25, 2012

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



Thursday, February 23, 2012

022312 quotes


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



Tuesday, February 21, 2012

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



Sunday, February 19, 2012

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.


Wednesday, February 15, 2012

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







Sunday, February 12, 2012

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




Saturday, February 11, 2012

021112 quotes


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




Friday, February 10, 2012

021012 quotes


-  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





Thursday, February 09, 2012

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



Tuesday, February 07, 2012

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



Sunday, February 05, 2012

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


Saturday, February 04, 2012

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


Wednesday, February 01, 2012

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




Tuesday, January 31, 2012

013112 quotes


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


Saturday, January 28, 2012

012812 quotes


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




Friday, January 27, 2012

012712 quotes


Courage is grace under pressure.
-  Ernest Hemingway

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, You will be successful.
-  Albert Schweitzer



Tuesday, January 24, 2012

012412 quotes


Once you’re a part of it, You’re UK until you die.
-  John Wall

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
-   Abraham Lincoln

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or
accept the responsibility for changing them.
-   Denis Waitley



Sunday, January 22, 2012

012212 quotes


Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.

Anonymous

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.

From a headstone in Ireland

I cannot know the pain you feel.
I cannot share your memories or your loss.
My words of sympathy are beneath measure, yet
know that my heart reaches out with love to your heart.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie



Saturday, January 21, 2012

012112 quotes


Believe you can … and then make it happen.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-  Mark Twain

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
-  George Washington Carver





Saturday, January 14, 2012

011412 quotes


The purpose of life is a life of purpose. - Robert Byrne

To lead a great life: Dream, Take Action, and Repeat.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What you are is God's gift to you: what you become is your gift to God.
-  Anthony Dalla Villa


Thursday, January 12, 2012

011212 quotes


Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. -  Charlie Finley

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. -  Leon J. Sue 

When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target.
To improve your aim - improve yourself. -  Gilbert Arland





Sunday, January 08, 2012

Coach Saban quotes 010812


I don't think there are really any words to describe how proud I am of our players ...  I think we have a great football team, a great bunch of young men who have done a wonderful job and they have played some really dominant football on both sides of the ball.
-  Coach Nick Saban

It was a little bit special yesterday at practice for me, because this group has been - from the time we played Michigan State in the [Capital One] Bowl game last year and made a commitment to do the right things, do things in the right way, and I've been very pleased and proud.
And you always have a good association with a team that makes those kinds of commitments and tries to do the right stuff. And that's one of the things that we've been most proud of in terms of earning the right to have an opportunity to play in a championship game.
-  Coach Nick Saban

My message to the team is going to be to focus on everything that they need to do to play their best football. That's the goal. That's the objective. And I think to reassure players now at this point -- everybody's going to want to win the game when the game comes. To reassure them of the things that they need to do to be able to stay focused so they can execute, play with great effort, be a relentless competitor, and stay in that place of who they are so that they have the best chance to play their best game is really what we're focused on right now.
-  Coach Nick Saban

Saturday, January 07, 2012

010712 quotes


Life is a sum of all your choices. - Albert Camus

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities. - J. K. Rowling

Make your important choices in life based on your values and your long-term objectives rather than on a need for approval.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Friday, January 06, 2012

010612 quotes


I don't want ordinary people, I want people who are willing to sacrifice and do without a lot of those things ordinary students get to do.
That's what it takes to win. -  Coach Paul Bear Bryant

He was simply the best there ever was. - Coach Bob Devaney, Nebraska

He wasn't just a coach, He was the coach. - Coach John McKay, USC

In many ways, American sports embody the best in our national character … dedication, teamwork, honor and friendship.  Paul "Bear" Bryant embodied football. The winner of more games than any other coach in history, Bear Bryant was a true American hero. A hard but beloved taskmaster he pushed ordinary people to perform extraordinary feats.
Patriotic to the core, devoted to his players and inspired by a winning spirit that never quit, Bear Bryant gave his country the gift of a legend.
In making the impossible seem easy, he lived what we all strive to be. 

- Ronald Reagan's remarks when awarding Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Coach Paul Bear Bryant, February 23, 1983.




Wednesday, January 04, 2012

010412 quotes


I don't think there's such a thing as failure. To me, failure is just a necessary step to achieve a goal. - Phil Keoghan

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
-  Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, will rise up to help you.
The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.
-  Napoleon Hill