Quotes sent in by Sam… Thanks Sam!

"Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time." -- Lou Holtz

"The secret of our success is found in our daily agenda." -- John C. Maxwell

"Basketball skills are not learned overnight. Countless hours of practices are required."

”You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”-Michael Jordan

"What distinguishes winners from losers is that winners concentrate at all times on what they can do, not on what they can't do. If a guy is a great shooter but not a great skater, we tell him to think only about the shot, the shot, the shot - never about some other guy out-skating him. The idea is to remember your successes." -- Bob Butera, former president of the New Jersey Devils hockey team

"You cannot live a positive life with a negative mind. And many times the problems that we face are created from wrong thinking patterns that actually produce the problems."

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." -- Lou Holtz

"Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail." -- John C. Maxwell

"People who feel good about themselves produce great results." -- Spence Johnson

"How a man plays the game shows something of his character; how he loses shows all of it." -- Frosty Westering

"Nobody who ever gave their best effort regretted it." -- George Halas

"The biggest mistake an athlete can make is to be afraid to make one." -- L. Ron Hubbard

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -- Senator Robert Kennedy

"He who makes no mistakes makes no progress." -- President Theodore Roosevelt

"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." -- George Bernard Shaw

"What to do with a mistake- recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it." -- Dean Smith

"Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -Henry Ford

"We play for the name on the front...not the one on the back"

"Teamwork is the fuel that produces uncommon results in common people." - anonymous

"Our offense begins with our defense"

"You don't know how good it feels to win until you've lost"

"If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals." -- Lou Holtz

"A loser says, "Well at least I tried!" When in reality, at most he tried; A winner doesn't have to say it, he just does it... be a doer, not a tryer." - Randy E. Johnson

"A player had his head down because his shots weren't falling. Shooting is only 10% of the game. You can play defense for 50% and you have 5 players when you are on offense. So, simple math says you can control the other 90% and still have a great game."