“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you’re behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.”

“Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering on.”

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”

“The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.”

“Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.”

“From what we get, we can make a living. What we give; however, makes a life.”

“We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.”