The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. ››The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. ››You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be. ››With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work; we are in. ››Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. ››There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. ››The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. ››The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished. It's over. It's time to forget and prepare for the next one. ››Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. ››A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, "Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep." ››Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. ››Once you have established the goals you want and the price you're willing to pay, you can ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure and the temporary failures. ››If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. ››Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. ››Winning is a habit. Watch your thoughts, they become your beliefs. Watch your beliefs, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. ››When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ››Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream. ››Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ››There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. ››I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. ››Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered, and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. ››It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men. ››It is not ease, but effort - not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved. ››The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honour. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. ››He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. ››No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius. ››I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth. ››When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. ››Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much. ››It's not the critic who counts; it's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done the better. The credit belongs to those of us who are actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. We strive valiantly and sometimes there's the triumph of achievement but at the worst, we fail, but at least we fail while daring greatly. ››If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day,
