“The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.”

“Don't judge your success by what people think of you. You are your own success.Your determination and perserverence is what matters.”

“football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”

“(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)”

“To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important.”