"Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have." Pat Summitt 

“The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.”

US Navy Seals

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.” 

Unknown

“It’s not the will to win that matters. Everyone has that. It’s the will to PREPARE to win that

matters.” Bear Bryant

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“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.” Michael Jordan

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.” Tim

Duncan (NBA MVP)

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, but a constant attitude.” Martin Luther King Jr.

“My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.” Michael

Jordan

“Integrity, the choice between what’s convenient and what’s right.” Tony Dungy

“Everything rises and falls on leadership.” John Maxwell "Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve." Tom Landry

“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self- sacrifice.”

Woodrow Wilson

“Patience is not the ability to wait, but how you act while waiting.” Joyce Meyer “The key to

everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” Arnold

H. Glasow

“If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl, but

whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let

my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.” Mia Hamm

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.” Gustave Flaubert

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the

team.” Phil Jackson

"Players need to trust and respect the fact that if I do my job we have the best chance of

being successful. I don’t have to make every play I just need to make the plays I’m supposed

to make in the gap I’m supposed to make them, and trust the guy next to me will do the same.”

Nick Saban

"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."

John Wooden