Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and discipline when you're a winner. But if you want to be a winner you must have faith and discipline even when you're not a winner.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. Sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

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.

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.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Ability is what you're capable of doing.

Motivation determines what you do.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better. Lou Holtz

If you're bored with life... if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things... you don't have enough goals.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

The main ingredient of a player's stardom is the rest of the team.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

Don't let players who create 20% of the results start to believe they deserve 80% of the rewards.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

You can never have enough talent.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

"I can't promise we will win, but I can promise we are going to teach our guys to play like winners. Number one, we are going to be in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.

Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.

Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens."