KEITH BULLOCK - Tennessee Titans LB: Confidence is like money. Very hard to get and very easy to lose.
PAT SUMMITT: "If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them."
PAT RILEY: "Great effort springs naturally from great attitude."
BRANDON ROY: "Now I see why Kobe, LeBron have that extra drive. You have to take these growing pains and remember them," Roy said after their first round exit to the Houston Rockets.
Kobe to Coach K: "I want you to let me guard the best player on every team we (Team USA) face. And I promise that I will destroy him."
Mike Krzyzewski: "Failure requires you to reevaluate."
Bart Starr - former NFL great: “If there was just one word I could use to describe a successful person, that one word would be attitude.”
Tom Brady: "Don't get caught up in worrying about what other guys do. When I started worrying about myself that was when things started going better for me."
Benjamin E. Mays: "The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to reach."
Denver Nuggets guard J.R.Smith said point guard Chauncy Billups allows Coach George Karl to "save his breath" when talking to his team.
George Karl: "The Chauncey trade was huge because everything we were preaching, teaching and coaching, he personified."
Lions' Schwartz: "The playoffs are a long way away. What's more important is what happens today. We need to set goals on a shorter scale."
Derek Fisher: "The guys who separate themselves are those who are able to take what appear to be setbacks and stay prepared, keep working."
Joe Torre: "A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished."
From the book "A New Breed of Leader": Katharine Graham, "the most important leadership quality is the absence of arrogance."
SU Coach Marrone: "Competition is the key to being successful. Look at any team, if it's successful, they have competition on that team."
Nick Saban" "We had a good spring, but I don't think the true team chemistry really surfaces until the summertime. The coaches are always with the guys in spring practice. In the summer, the coaches aren't there as much. That's when the true leadership starts to emerge. You start to see the core buy-in that everybody has in terms of how they go about what they do. They have to work with the strength and conditioning coaches. For the first time, the responsibility becomes theirs instead of somebody making them do it. That's where the true chemistry (develops); you see what the team might be."
Peter Drucker: "To trust a leader, it is not necessary to like him. Nor is it necessary to agree with him."
John Stuart Mill: "He who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do."
