Motivational Quotes: In The Locker Room

"It's hard to be good from time to time in sports (and in business)...what's tough is being good every day!" by Willie Mays (Hall of Fame Professional Baseball Player)   "Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan" by Tom Landry (Former Dallas Cowboys NFL Coach)   "What's important now? -- To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present" by Lou Holtz (Former Notre Dame Football Coach)   "What pleased me most is that we made decent steps with fundamentals and the foundation of the team" By Bill Belichick (New England Patriots Football Coach)   "If you are as good as you can possibly be, the rest of the stuff will take care of itself…let's talk about winning" By Tom Coughlin (New York Giants Football Coach)   "Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players. It is not enough to put it on the blackboard and say, 'Okay, here it is.' You have to convince the players that the plan is a good one and show them, in specific ways, why it will work. If you do, you send them out to the practice field with more confidence." By Joe Gibbs (NFL Football Coach)   "I think what coaching is all about is taking players and analyzing their ability and put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning" By Don Shula (NFL Football Coach)   "Success isn't something that just happens -- success is learned, success is practiced, and then it is shared" By Sparky Anderson (MLB Baseball Coach)   "Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team" By Tom Landry (NFL Football Coach)   "Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it" By Joe Paterno (Penn State College Football Coach)   "A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." By Vince Lombardi (NFL Football Coach)   "I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it." By Gale Sayers (Hall of Fame NFL Running Back)   "Everyone wants to win but not everyone is willing to prepare to win" By Bobby Knight (Retired College Basketball Coach)   "Contrary to the opinion of many people, leaders are not born.  Leaders are made, and they are made by effort and hard work" By Vince Lombardi (Former Green Bay Packers Coach)   "The winning team has a dedication.  It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards.  They will not accept defeat" By Merlin Olsen (Former Professional Football Player)   "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.  I've lost almost 300 games.  26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.  I've failed over and over and over again in my life.   And THAT is why I succeed!" By Michael Jordan (Former Chicago Bulls NBA Basketball Player)   "How do you go from where you are to where you want to be?  I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life.  You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it!" By Jim Valvano (NC State Basketball Coach)   "It's the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back" By Joe Paterno (Penn State Football Coach)   "The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion…when no one else is watching!" By Anson Dorrance (NCAA Women's Soccer Coach - North Carolina)   "If you don't have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?" By John Wooden (UCLA Basketball Coach)   "The principle is competing against yourself.  It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before" By Steve Young (Former NFL Professional Football Quarterback)   "If anything goes bad, I did it!  If anything goes semi-good, then we did it!  If anything goes really good, then you did it!  That's all it takes to get people to win football games." By Paul "Bear" Bryant (Hall of Fame College Football Coach)   "The great thing about tomorrow...I can be better tomorrow than I am today" By Tiger Woods (Professional Golfer)   "Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action and purpose!" By Lance Armstrong (7-time Tour De France Champion)   "Good, Better, Best.  Never let it rest.  Until your good is better and your better is best!" By Tim Duncan (Professional Basketball Player - NBA)   "Success is about having, excellence is about being.  Success is about money & fame, excellence is about being the best you can be!" By Mike Ditka (Former NFL player & coach)   "You can't control people.  You must understand them. You have to know where they are coming from, their beliefs, their values, what turns them off, and what they're against." By Hayden Frye (College Football Coach)   "Winning takes talent...to repeat takes character" By John Wooden (UCLA Baskteball Coach)   "Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should accomplish with your ability" By John Wooden (Hall of Fame NCAA Basketball Coach - UCLA)   "I never learn anything from talking.  I only learn something from asking questions" By Lou Holtz (Notre Dame Football Coach)   "We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves.  The real test is this:  Did I make my best effort on every play?" By Bud Wilkinson (Former Oklahoma Sooners - College Football Coach)   "We had to pull out every trick in the bag and battle as hard as we thought we had to" By Chris Peterson (Boise State Football Coach - After Fiesta Bowl win over Oklahoma Sooners)   "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination" By Tommy Lasorda (Professional Baseball Coach / Manager - LA Dodgers)   "Hard work and togetherness.  They go hand in hand.  You need the hard work because it is such a tough atmosphere…to win week in and week out.  You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang tough together." By Tony Dungy (NFL Professional Football Coach)   "You don't suffer, kill yourself, and take the risks I take just for money.  I love bike racing" By Greg Lemond (3-Time Tour De France Champion)   "Show class, have pride, and display character.  If you do, winning takes care of itself" By Paul Bryant (Former College Football Coach)   "There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts.  The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional.  This is sheer intensity" By Jack Nicklaus (Former Professional Golfer)   "A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play.  You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year!" By Walter Payton (Former NFL Football Player)   "There are only two options regarding commitment.  You're either IN or you're OUT...there is no such thing as life in-between" By Pat Riley (NBA Basketball Coach)   "Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one-thing...the result" By Vince Lombardi (Green Bay Packers Coach)   "You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to one sentence:  In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over" By George Halas about Vince Lombardi   "Make the present good and the past will take care of itself" By Knute Rockne (Notre Dame Football Coach)   "Take Pride in What you Know:  The things you do well are the things you enjoy doing" From Memphis State University Football Playbook

Motivational Quotes: Business & Leadership

"Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things" By Peter Drucker (Business Mgmt. Icon)   "To my customer: I may not have the answer, but I'll find it. I may not have the time, but I'll make it. I may not be the biggest, but I'll be the most committed to your success." by Unknown Author   "If you are going to think…then you might as well THINK BIG" By Donald Trump (Trump Industries CEO)   "If you are going to dream…then you might as well DREAM BIG" By Howard Schultz (Starbucks CEO)   "Good leaders are like good coaches, they give their team the tools they need and ask for, as well as the encouragement and compliments to stay in the game" By Gary Hudson (founder of Rotary Rocket Company)   "The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right" By Edward C. Simmons (St Louis Business Icon)   "When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people:  those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened" By John M. Richardson   "You cannot keep determined people from success.  If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping stones and climb to new heights" By Mary Kay Ash (Saleswoman & Entrepreneur)   "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." By Alexander Graham Bell (Inventor)   "Give a man a magnifying glass, teach him the power of focus and he'll set the world on fire" By Archimedes (Greek mathematician, engineer, and physicist)   "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." By Henry Ford (founder of Henry Ford Motor Company)   "The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else.  They work much, MUCH harder." By Malcolm Gladwell (Author - Business & Marketing)   "I only want people around me who can do the impossible" By Elizabeth Arden (Canadian Businesswoman)   "The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear" By Daniel Defoe (Writer / Author)   "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause" By Mark Twain (Author)   "An athlete may run 10,000 miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards.  Quantity gives experience." By Ray Bradbury (American Writer)   "Step out of your comfort zone once more each week and create over 50 additional opportunities for excitement, challenge, and possibility each year.  This is what life's about." By Sam Parker (Author of '212 degrees')   "What you are will show in what you do" By Thomas Edison (Inventor)   "You can't hit a home run if you don't step up to the plate...You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water...You can't reach your goals if you don't try" By Unknown Author   "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy!" By Martin Luther King Jr. (Political Activist and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. member)   "Credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly" By Theodore Roosevelt (26th American President)   "If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value...be bold" By Howard Schultz (Chairman of Starbucks)   "Make a 'You-Turn:  People care about what they get, not what you have.  They get excited by the pictures they see in their minds, not the pictures you see in yours" By Anne Miller (Business Author)   "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose" By Lyndon B. Johnson (American President)   "The difference between failure and success...is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right!" By Edward C. Simmons (Simmons Hardware Company - CEO/Founder)   "Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible" By St. Francis (Italian Founder of Franciscan Order)   "Most people have a passion for success and creative self-expression somewhere deep inside them.  They want to be part of something meaningful, to make a contribution, and to find fulfillment in what they do .  Sadly, these yearnings are often managed out of people in the unrelenting quest for predictable mediocrity that most organizations pursue.  People are seldom encouraged to be themselves, have fun, or seek fulfillment in their jobs.  Instead, they are pushed to just do their jobs, meet their quotas, and not make waves.  Think outside the box?  Proceed at your own peril." From "DO THE RIGHT THING" by James Parker (former CEO of Southwest Airlines)