Notes & Quotes
  • Notes and Quotes
    February 26, 2010 | 11:09 pm
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    “Its too darn hot for a penguin to be walkin around here.”
    Billy Madison/Alex Thornburg
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    “To give anything less than your best is to sacrafice the gift.”
    Steve Prefontaine
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    “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.”
    Henry Ford
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    “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
    Michael Jordan
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    “People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit.  Most men succeed because they are determined to.”
    George Allen
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    “Don’t live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.”
    Wendy Wasserstein
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    “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
    John Quincy Adams
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    “It’s amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.”
    Unknown
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    “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
    Vince Lombardi
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    “If you want to enjoy the rainbow, you must also endure the rain.”
    Unknown
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    “Visualize the thing that you want; see it, feel it, belive in it.  Make your mental blue print and begin to build.”
    Robert Collier
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    “The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
    Winston Churchill
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    “Don’t tell your problems to people.  Eighty percent don’t care, and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.”
    Lou Holtz
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    “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
    Michael Jordan
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    “If cinders build champions, what does asphalt build?”
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    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
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    “He who runs fastest wins the race.”
    Jonathan Duncan
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    “The secret to happiness is not doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.”
    Unknown
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    “Success is talent, put together with hard work and luck.”
    Kareem Abdul-Jabar
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    “It’s all good.” 
    Coach Ciroli
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    “Do not confuse motion and progress.  A rocking horse keeps moving, but does not make any progress.”
    Alfred Montapert
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    “We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
    Aristotle
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    “A boat doesn’t go forward if each person is rowing their own direction.”
    Swahili proverb
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    “Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you respond to it.”
    Lou Holtz
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