Winning Every Day
Assorted Quotes/Notes from Lou Holtz's book Winning Every Day:
Our team wasn't merely ready to play, we were ready to win.
We won that game the moment our group of young men focused on what we had instead of what we lacked. That's the only perspective you can take in hard times. Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.
Winner and losers aren't born; they are the products of how they think.
But compensation does not guarantee performance. You must possess something inside of yourself the eschews mediocrity while embracing greatness. You must welcome adversity as a test of your resolve.
All this demonstrates that things have a way of working themselves out if we just remain positive.
We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can''t win and stop wallowing in self-pity
My players seemed to have forgotten that whenever you point your finger at someone, three fingers point back at you.
The inspirational verse, "I am only one, but I am one; I can't do everything, but I can do something; what I can do, I ought to do, and by the grace of God, I will do,"
The great jazz musician Miles Davis once said, "Don't be afraid of failure. There is no such thing."
You just have to remember: Don't let what you don't have keep you from using what you do have.