I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"
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.
I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview.
The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again. . . In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.
I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.