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“The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”

“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.”

“Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.”

“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”

“If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”

“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.”

“Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.”

“Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.”

“The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.”

“You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.”

“There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.”

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.”

“The principle is competing against yourself.”

“To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”