060312 quotes

When you find that place where you’re happy, don’t mess with it.

-  Coach Jim Valvano

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, But rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

-  Hugh Downs 

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, Is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

-  Dale Carnegie

060212 quotes

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

-  Ted Williams

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be
understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

-  Ralph Nichols

Profanity is a sign of inadequate vocabulary or unsound judgment … or both.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

060112 quotes

Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.

-  Helen Keller

You must find the place inside yourself  where nothing is impossible.

-  Deepak Chopra

Decide where you are going and how you are to get there.  Then make a start from where you now stand.

-  Napoleon Hill

052212 quotes

Everything depends upon execution;  having just a vision is no solution.

Stephen Sondheim

I CAN...
Two powerful words that inspire our confidence...  Serve as a testament to our determination to succeed...  And reflect a desire to be our very best.

Zig Ziglar

Happiness is the feeling of joy and excitement you get when you have hope, and move with positive expectation toward that positive dream, expectation, or goal.

Joseph McClendon III

050312 quotes

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar

Self-esteem is the immune system of the mind and of the spirit.

Lee Pulos

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this:

Act as if it were impossible to fail.That is the talisman, the formula, The command of right-about-face which Turns us from failure towards success.

Dorothea Brande

041812 quotes

You know why we won the (2012) national title? … We have the best players and we have the best team.

-  Coach John Calipari

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others.  It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

-  William Mather Lewis
 

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, You will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude,

A feeling that nurtures the soul.

-  Harold Kushner

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As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

Mary Anne Radmacher

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, For this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down,  But the staying down.

Mary Pickford 

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

Washington Irving

040112 quotes

Success is neither magical nor mysterious.

Success is the natural consequence of

Consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

The major reason for setting a goal is

For what it makes of you to accomplish it.

What it makes of you will always be the

Far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

021112 quotes

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

-  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

021012 quotes

Discipline is not a nasty word.

-  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

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

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

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

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

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