"There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's
up to YOU to decide what to do with them."
Jim Valvano - The late "Coach V" won the
NCAA National Champion in 1983 with North Carolina State.
"I've always felt, in spite of what seems to be the general feeling, that
it's easier to stay on top than it is to get there. I think it's far more difficult to get there. Once you're
there, you have learned so much along the way that it puts you in a much better state of mind to stay at or near the top than
it is to get there in the first place. Perhaps it's about trying to hard. When you want something so much, I think
the tendency is that you try a little too hard. You've got to learn just to make your best effort, day-to-day.
Never think of overcoming someone else. It goes back to something my father tried to get across to me and my brothers
when we were in grade school. You should never try to be better than someone else, but you should never cease to try
to be the best that you can be. I was always trying to get my players to reach their own particular level of competency
and not worry about the competency of somebody else. If theirs is higher than ours and they've worked hard, they're
going to overcome. But if it's higher than ours and they haven't worked as hard as we have, then if we can come closer
to our level of competency, we have a chance to overcome."
John Wooden - The GREATEST college basketball
coach of all time and coached UCLA to 10 NCAA National Championships in 12 years. Mr. Wooden is the ONLY man named to
the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a coach and player.
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games.
26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my
life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan - the GREATEST basketball player
of all time!
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your
better is best."
Tim Duncan - Center for the NBA World Champion San Antonio Spurs
"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop
them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."
Larry Bird - NBA Hall of Famer and current President of the NBA Indiana
Pacers
