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1. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
2. Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
3. Football is like life — it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
4. You don’t do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
5. Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things — blocking and tackling.
6. Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it — his mind, his body, his heart — what’s life worth to him?
7. If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
8. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
9. Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
10. Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
11. Winners never quit and quitters never win.
12. Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
13. Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
14. Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
15. If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
16. Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
17. The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
18. Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
19. It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
20. The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.