"My practices are not designed for your enjoyment." - Norman Dale
"Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter" - N. D. Wilson
"Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself." - N. D. Wilson
"'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'" - J.R.R. Tolkien
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less." - Forged Letter of Robert E. Lee
"Every play has a life and history of its own . . . Not affected by success. Not affected by failure. On to the next play. Never satisfied. Playing to a standard, not the circumstances of the game." - Curt Cignetti
"Adapt. Adjust. Improvise. Attack at all times." - Curt Cignetti
"It's a process. It's a way you go about doing things. It's a high standard, high expectation, it's accountability. It's discipline, commitment, toughness, work ethic, pride. It's wanting to be great vs wanting to be normal." - Curt Cignetti
"All of us face adversity every single day, week, month, and year. Part of being successful is overcoming adversity, learning from and coming back stronger from failure, and not being affected by success. Staying humble and hungry every single day. High achievers and strivers understand that, and that is why they get to that point." - Curt Cignetti
"For this is what it means to be a King: to be first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat, and when there's hunger in the land (as must be now and then in bad years), to wear finer clothes and laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man in your land." - C. S. Lewis
"Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly." - N. D. Wilson
"I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline." - Vince Lombardi
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." - Vince Lombardi
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." - C. S. Lewis
"A good player is always lucky" (let the reader understand) - José Raúl Capablanca
"People die in bed." - A farmer, upon being asked why he was up so early doing work.
"The goal and norm of discipline is bliss. - Aquinas