Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.

If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.

You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.

Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.

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?

Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.

Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.

The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.

If a man truly loves, he gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.

Small steps add up to complete big journeys.

Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

Good news. President Bush is creating thousands of new jobs. Unfortunately, all of them are at the White House.

There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.