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"The main thing is to always keep the main thing, the main thing."
by Howard Kirksey
Dan Thomas
East Middle School
Tullahoma, TN
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If you always do, what you have always have done, the you will always be what you are.
Unknown
Coach Bruce Moore
Lady Dogs
St. Teresa High School
Decatur, Illinois
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"Contentment flies out the window right beside trust."
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Drew Phillips
School of the Osage
Lake Ozark, MO
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"Adversity cause some to break; others to break records."
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Jim Stergar
Billings Senior High
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"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
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Jim Stergar
Billings Senior High
Billings, MT
"If you'll do today what others won't, you'll do tomorrow what others can't."
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Steve Jett
Strategic Employee Benefit Services,
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
"It's not enough to want to win...everyone wants to win, the question is, Do you have the will to prepare to win?
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Steve Jett
Strategic Employee Benefit Services,
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
"Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or long lasting"
John Wooden
Dave Leom
Milaca High School
"Putting out someone else's candle doesn't make yours burn any brighter."
By Unknown
Coach Pete Flotilin
Billings Central High School
"Many players are willing to take the last shot of the game but few are willing to miss it."
By Unknown
Jason Andrews
Doniphan High School
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. We all make mistakes - especially those who do things. Failure is often the first necessary step towards success."
By Unknown
Paul Nepodal
A.D. Franklin Public Schools
"If you think small things don't matter, think of the last game you lost by one point"
By Unknown
Liza Whittington
"A second place finish can determine the character of a future champion."
By Unknown
Darrell Murphy
"A man's character is developed by his actions when no one else is around to watch."
By Unknown
Darrell Murphy
"It's not about "getting your's", It's about giving your's."
Coach Chris Shikles
Boonville H.S.
Boonville, MO
“TEAMWORK – The fuel that
produced uncommon results in common
people."
by Unknown
Coach Shad
Reed
"He is no fool who gives what he
cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
James Elliott
"At first we make our habits, and then our habits make us."
by Author unknown
Dell Leonard
Mountain Home High School
(AR)
"Have character, don't be one."
Mike Waller - Coal Grove High School
"Do what you can with what you
have where you are."
by Theodore
Roosevelt
Kiley Yates - Underwood, Iowa
"Victorious warriors win first
and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then
seek to win."
by Sun Tzu (The Art of War)
Whitt Jones - Starrs Mill HS (GA)
"The time will come when winter
will ask what you were doing all summer."
by Henry Clay, American Statesman
Patrick Rady
Southwestern H.S. - Hanover, IN
"If you do the little things, the
big things will happen"
Mark Majewski
Villa Maria Academy - Erie, PA
"In a world of give and take,
there are not many willing to give what it takes."
by Clebe McCleary
Coach Paul Dixon
Sparta HS - Sparta, Mo.
"Kids will do
what you expect and they will also do what you let them get away
with".
Mike Saylor
South Vigo HS, Terre Haute,
Indiana
"Dream
the Impossible - Do The Incredible"
Coach Bennett
New Boston Huron High School
"Do you really understand all of what you think you know?"
by Dave Torigian
George Torigian
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress;
working together is success."
by Henry Ford
Coach Mike Schmidt
Hitchcock, South Dakota
"Great minds have purposes, Little minds have wishes."
by Washington Irving
Coach Lee Allen
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but
a habit."
by Aristotle
Christy Lee
"Everybody wants to follow the leader; but, nobody wants to lead the
followers."
by Coach Lou Sartori
"Leaders are like eagles - they don't flock. You find them one at a
time."
by Knute Rockne
Klint Pleasant
"Boards, Boards, Boards"
by Knute Rockne
George Beaudon
Rochester College's #1 Fan
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
by John F. Kennedy
Romone Neal
"The three best things I've learned in coaching: my players must
play Hard, Hard, Hard."
by Coach John Wild
JT Henderson
"A person really doesn´t become whole, until he becomes a part of
something that´s bigger than himself."
by Jim Valvano
Coach Mike Krzyzewski
"Pride is the sheet anchor of morality.
The doer of noble deeds.
When love flies and hope fails,
Pride still lingers.
The savage rear guard of the human soul."
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Coach John Hirst
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"The only easy day was yesterday."
by Clint Black
Coach Kevin Gill
"How can you expect a basketball player to work hard on the court
if he doesn't work hard in the classroom?"
by Coach Blake Perkins
"Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but
somewhere between reality falls."
by Lou Holtz
Greg Eubanks
"All Battles Are Won Before They Are Fought."
from Sun Tzu
Coach Arlan Arthaud
"To play the game is great, To win the game is greater, But to love the game is the greatest of all"
Mike Zeillmann
"Abuse brings restrictions"
Lou Holtz
Kevin Gill
Paragould High School (AR)
"A grandfather told his grandson that there is a battle between two wolves that live within you.
One wolf is evil and has anger, envy, sorrow, regrets, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, superiority and ego.
The other wolf is good and has joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, empathy, generosity, faith, courage, honor and integrity.
The grandson asked his grandfather, "Which one wins?"
The grandfather replied simply, "The one you feed."
Gene Lorenz
Financial Advisor
"Individuals care about
starting, team players care about finishing"
Unknown
Neil Robinson
Commit or Quit!
Scott Sivills
Head Girl’s Basketball Coach
Calloway County High School- Murray, KY
Adversity: "Any man can steer the helm when the sea is calm."
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from
achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong
mental attitude."
by Thomas Jefferson
Coach Romone Neal
"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about
who gets the credit."
Robert Yates - owner of Dale Jarrett's racing team.
Coach Calvin Decker
"Athletics
and Competition is not for everyone. You are the courageous ones!
Coach Nate Higgins
Montgomery, MN
"Ask not what your teammates can do for you Ask what you can do
for your teammates."
by Magic Johnson
" It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success,
whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case,
in basketball, from religion."
by John Wooden
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
by John Wooden
"Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips
with his role on the team."-
by Scottie Pippen
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
by Michael Jordan
"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying"
by Michael Jordan
"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results
will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I
do, then I can expect half-hearted results."
by Michael Jordan
"I've missed more than 9000 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
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
by Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot...
when you think about the consequences you always think of a
negative result. "
by Michael Jordan
"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game."
by Michael Jordan
"As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come,
stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the
toughest part of the day."
by Michael Jordan
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've
had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to
stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
by Michael Jordan
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
by Michael Jordan
"Winners never quit and quitters never win. "
by Michael Jordan
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
by Michael Jordan
Linda Simon
"Work beats talent when talent doesn't work."
Unknown
Gary Tidwell
Danville, High School
Danville, IL
"Ten years from now I won't remember how many points I had each game, or how many newspaper articles had my name in them, or how many minutes I played. I will, however, remember that I was part of something larger than myself, and that I was part of something I helped make successful, because I was part of a team.
Coach David Steele
Hot Springs County High School Basketball
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
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Coach Codi Schmitz
Williston High School