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

-- Vince Lombardi

"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."

-- Tom Landry

"The will to win is meaningless without the will to prepare!"

-- Joe Gibbs

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

-- John Wooden

"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."

-- Arsene Wenger

"I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else."

-- Earl Weaver

"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot."

-- Dean Smith

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it."

-- Knute Rockne

"The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team."

-- Knute Rockne

"There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between."

-- Pat Riley