Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.
Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Do your best, one shot at a time, and then move on.
Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.
A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
I love the challenge.
The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.
I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.