Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.
You can only receive what you're willing to give.
When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to the depth or the height, or we do not take the trouble to do so.
There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot of pleasure or even joy in working with those alternatives and also it's made me so much more aware of just how much work we can make those sources of supply do for us, whether it's electricity or fossil fuels.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.