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I don’t count my sit-ups.

I only start counting when it starts hurting.

That is when I start counting,

Because then it really counts.

That’s what makes you a champion.

- Muhammad Ali

Any business whose management

Has the foresight to adopt a policy

Which consolidates management,

Employees and the public it serves

In a spirit of teamwork, provides itself

With an insurance policy against failure.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

Excellence is not a singular act,

But a habit.

You are what you repeatedly do.

- Shaquille O'Neal

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Nothing happens until a sale takes place.  

- Red Motley

If they like you,

And if they believe you,

And they trust you,

And they have confidence in you …

Then they MAY buy from you.

- Jeffrey Gitomer

To accomplish great things, we must not only act,

But also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

- Anatole France

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I say luck is when an opportunity comes

Along and you’re prepared for it.

- Denzel Washington

Your attitude is like a box of crayons

That colors your world.
Constantly color your picture gray,

And your picture will always be bleak.
Try adding some bright colors to the

Picture by including humor,
and your picture begins to lighten up.
- Allen Klein

This idea of Competitive Greatness and playing

The best isn’t about winning or losing.

It’s about your character.

Are you someone who wants your victories easy?

Quick and simple? 

Sports, politics, and business are littered with men

And women who didn’t have to work hard for their

Victories and struggled to maintain success.

It’s the rare exception that proves the rule.

I’m trying to teach my son this lesson right now. 

His teacher assigned him a reading challenge to

Read a certain number of books in a set amount of time. 

My goal is to help and challenge him to up the ante,

Tackling more challenging reading material so that

We benefit his mind as well as make the victory in

The end so much sweeter.

Look closely at your career and your business. 

Have you shied away from a tough road in favor of an

Easier path?

Maybe it’s time to toughen up and fight a good fight. 

Maybe you’ll take some lumps along the way,

And maybe you will fail, but the experience will hone

Your character and make you a better competitor.

Over time, if you persist, you’ll be on your personal

Path to Greatness!

- Don Yaeger

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A wise man watches his faults

More closely than his virtues;

Fools reverse the order.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

Seek feedback actively.

Few of us can see the places in ourselves,

Or our work, that most need correction.

- Don Yaeger

How strange that,

Although we dwell within ourselves,
we seldom know what we truly want
or what we truly believe about important matters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Dreams become reality when

We put our minds to it.

- Queen Latifah

The first step towards getting somewhere

Is to decide that you are not going to stay

Where you are.

- J. P. Morgan

One who gains strength by overcoming 

obstacles possesses the only strength 

which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

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I like threes. I love dunks.

- Coach John Calipari

We don’t just play college basketball…

We ARE college basketball.

- Coach John Calipari

We do more than move the needle.

We are the needle. We are UK.

- Coach John Calipari

We got up 17, and then we gave up three

Threes to Schofield. Told them at halftime

It’s good because this is what's going to

Happen in the next tournament,

Something like this.

Now let's figure out what we're about.

And I said, and they're not done.

So they start the second half and make

Another run at us, and I've got to call a

Time-out right before the 16-minute mark,

And this team responded. They responded.

Every situation and experience is new to them,

So you don't really know what they're going to do,

And we need as many of these kinds of things as

We can going into next weekend.

So proud of them. Really proud of them.

How about Sacha? Look, P.J. and Sacha and

Even Quade … Quade did some good stuff today.

But Sacha just had to wait his turn,

And he was ready for it. Big play;

That stick back was huge.

- Coach John Calipari

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Our thoughts and imaginations are the

Only real limits to our possibilities.

- Orison Swett Marden

TOMORROW is not a good time to start

Your dream life …

It’s full of empty promises.

- Bob Proctor

To the victor belong the responsibilities.
- Al Bernstein 

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Keith Whitley - Kentucky Bluebird

How Are Things In Clay, Kentucky?

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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

- Benjamin Disraeli

We must have a theme, a goal,

A purpose in our lives.

If you don’t know where you’re aiming,

You don’t have a goal.

- Mary Kay Ash

No man or woman is an island.

To exist just for yourself is meaningless.

You can achieve the most satisfaction when

You feel related to some greater purpose in life,

Something greater than yourself.

- Denis Waitley

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When you see Kentucky's fans, you just wonder.

You think how wonderful it would be to go to their school.

You wish you could trade places for a day, just so you could experience that feeling.

- UCLA player Kris Johnson

Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't

Have the kind of environment they have here.

The fans here have a passion.

- Dick Vitale on Kentucky fans, December 23, 1999.

They had it before you; they had it during you,

They’ll have it when you're gone....

- Al McGuire on Kentucky Basketball Tradition

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Apparently the University of Kentucky

Basketball dynasty is to continue forever.

- Philadelphia Inquirer, December 23 1954.

I just thought it was the Kentucky fans coming in.

Coach Billy Gillespie in Atlanta after a tornado slams

- Into the Georgia Dome.

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.

- Coach Adolph Rupp on his Southeastern Conference

Brethren in 1934.

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Basketball doesn’t build character, it reveals it.

- James Naismith

I want boldness and what I call swagger …

A strong self-confidence that edges up to but

Does not cross the line into arrogance.

- Coach John Calipari

If you laugh, you think and you cry, that’s a full day.

That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week,

You’re going to have something special.

- Coach Jim Valvano

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Love is smiling on the inside and out.
- Jennifer Williams

Love that is true never grows old.
- Elben Bano

Love is more than a feeling;
it's a state of mind.
- Lisa Grude 

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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
the saddest are these, "It might have been."
- John Greenleaf Whittier

"Don't waste your time on jealousy.

Sometimes you're ahead,

Sometimes you're behind.

The race is long and, in the end,

It’s only with yourself."

- Mary Schmich

It’s not about how hard you can hit;

It’s about how hard you can get hit

And keep moving forward.

- Rocky Balboa

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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come

to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

- Mark Twain

Some die without having really lived,

while others continue to live,

in spite of the fact that they have died.

- Anonymous

Everything science has taught me …

and continues to teach me …

strengthens my belief in the community

of our spiritual existence after death.

- Werner Von Braun

Everyone must die once.

Then they are judged.

- Hebrews 9:27 ERV

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The man who is too old to learn was

Probably always too old to learn.

- Carl Haskins

He who has a why to live for can bear

Almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The best recommendation is the one you give

Yourself by rendering superior service …

With the right mental attitude.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

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Let my example teach you a lesson.

Poverty has its freedoms;

Opulence has its obstacles.

- Diderot

If you're not out there taking some risks,

If you're just coasting along with your wins,

Then you're not really trying.

- Ron Howard

Time is our most valuable asset,

Yet we tend to waste it, kill it,

And spend it rather that invest it.

- Jim Rohn

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If you get to the point where someone is telling you
that you are not great or not good enough,
just follow your heart and don't let anybody

Crush your dream.
- Patti LaBelle

The ownership of money and property

Comes as a result of doing things in a certain way.

Those who do things in this certain way,

Whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich.

Those who do not do things in this certain way,

No matter how hard they work or how able they are,

Remain poor.

It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects.

Therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this 

Certain way will infallibly get rich.

- Wallace D. Wattles

What I did was defined how we would play

As a team and then how each individual would play.

And that who we would go through. In other words,

We’re not just running offense to run offense,

We’re playing through a player.

And we're going to play through this guy and this guy,

If you have a problem with that, come and see me,

I'll just, you're sitting the bench.

And we will count on them to make plays for us.

And occasionally we're going to play through this guy,

Because he's a beast. And if he gets it going,

We’ll play through him.

The rest of you, we're not playing through you.

And what happens is we score more, less turnovers,

More assists, five guys in double figures.

I think we're scoring what? 12 or 15 more a game.

What is it? Averaged 87? So it's probably 17, 16, and 15

More than we have been scoring.

- Coach John Calipari

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