Success

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I wanted to be a Marine. That was my plan, my intention, and I wouldn't settle for anything less.

You can never spend too much time making your body as strong and as fast as possible.

Talent without desire is like a Ferrari without fuel.

If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

The more I accomplish, the better it gets. I'm never satisfied.

The ability to create ultimately determines our ability to be successful.

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

To make this team come out on top with the belief of the experts against it favored to lose, that's convincing the boys of the worth of the Notre Dame spirit.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm, and deception.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, and a civilization work.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome.