And winning is a huge thing for me.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.