Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born into situations in which positive messages abound. Others grow up hearing messages of fear and failure, which they must block out so the positive can be heard. But the positive and courageous voice will always emerge, somewhere, sometime, for all of us. Listen for it, and your breakthroughs will come.