The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.
Don't talk too much or too soon.
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.
Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
Before I had a driver's license, and I lived in the suburbs of Minneapolis and went to high school and came home - I could ride my bike around or get a ride from my parents, but my world was pretty small, limited. Like anyone at that age, I only knew things I could get to.
You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.
Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!