101513 quotes

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

101013 quotes

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

100813 quotes

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

100713 quotes

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

100413 quotes

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

100113 quotes

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

I was really excited and pleased with the job our team did, the way they hung in there in the game. You can be critical about kicking three field goals, can be critical about a lot of things, but if you're critical it's only because you have expectations for something that this team still needs to improve. I think everybody is committed to trying to do that. That’s what we’re going to be committed to.

-  Coach Nick Saban on the 25-0 victory vs. Ole Miss 092813

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.  Unsuccessful people are always asking, what’s in it for me?

-  Brian Tracy

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

-  Denis Waitley

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The opponent should never determine your level of competitive spirit.

-  Nick Saban

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

-  George Allen

All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means … you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

-  Vince Lombardi

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The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

-  Bob Proctor

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

-  Joshua J. Marine

You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is rider and who is horse.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

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Honor is better than honors.

-  Abraham Lincoln

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

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 

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You cannot change what you refuse to confront.

-  Anonymous

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your
dominant aspiration.
-  James Allen

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

-  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

092313 quotes

Stop being who you were and become who you are.

-  Paul Coelho

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
-  Denis Waitley

There are three things vital to success in athletics … conditioning, fundamentals, and working together as a team.

-  John Wooden

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Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going.

-  Jim Ryun

If you don’t know what you want from life, what do you think you will get?

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.

-  Robert Louis Stevenson 

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Tough times never last. Tough people do.
-   Robert Schuller

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

-   Les Brown

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

-   John Wooden 

092013 quotes in honor of our beautiful daughter Allison who celebrated her birthday yesterday

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I’m possible!

-  Audrey Hepburn 

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.

-  Joel Brown

 

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Way above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then oh why can't I?

If happy little blue birds fly beyond the rainbow
Why oh why can't I?

-   E Y Harburg

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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
-  James Allen
 
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

-   Bruce Lee

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
-  Stephen Covey

Coach Nick Saban quotes following 49-42 victory over Texas A&M 091413

We knew we were going to have play this way on offense to have a chance in this game, I didn't think they were going to score 42 points, but I kind of thought they would score some points and they did.

I'm so proud of our players for the resiliency they showed getting behind 14-0, just slowly and methodically coming back in the game and building up the lead.

I know you (media) tried to make it out (to be) a 61-year-old guy against that good quarterback (Johnny Manziel) but we didn't have much of a chance in that game, We had a lot better chance our team against their team.

We needed everybody all in today, even though it got ugly at times, they competed and it was a great win for us.

Alabama Coach Nick Saban

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Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
-  Ralph Marston

It’s about being relentless is the pursuit of your goals, and resilient in the face of bad luck and adversity.

-  Nick Saban

A negative mind never attracts happiness or material success, but it will attract their opposites.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

091013 quotes

We are responsible for what we create, not the other team.

-  Nick Saban

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

Winners recognize and work on changing their attitudes and beliefs and expectations first, and then they easily and naturally take the actions that lead to the achievement of their goals.

-  Mike Brooks

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What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.

-  Albert Einstein 

It is nearly a certainty that some of your expectations will not be met today … choose Joy anyway.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our commitment, conviction, attitude allowed us to do what we needed to do as a team to achieve at the highest level.

- Nick Saban

090813 quotes

Winners are simply willing to do what losers won’t.

Anonymous

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Henry Ward Beecher

A golfer can’t dictate what his opponents shoot. He can’t wave his arms or tackle a playing partner who’s getting ready to putt. But he can always reach within himself to bring out the best in his battle against the laws of physics and par.

Arnold Palmer

090713 quotes

Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.

-  Ernest Holmes

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 

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 

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He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

-  Friedrich Nietzsche

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

-  Albert Einstein

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
-  Marianne Williamson

090413 quotes

Dream big and dare to fail.

-  Norman Vaughan

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

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

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

-  Anatole France

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

 -  Charles Bruxton

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

-  Samuel Johnson

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

-  Colin Powell