GoodWord of the Week Archive

"If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition."

- Bob Richards

"Your reputation will not win games. You must be ready mentally and physically."

- Red Auerbach

"Patience is a virtue. It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it."

- John Wooden

"The biggest opponent of success is not failure, it is mediocrity."

- Unknown

"Class always shows"

- Paul Brown

"You don't aim at the bullseye. You aim at the center of the bullseye."

- Raymond Berry

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say that you cannot do"

- Walter Bagehot

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is just what people say you are."

- John Wooden

"The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer."

- Henry Clay

"Above all, watch with glittering eyes the world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who choose not to believe in magic will never find it!"

Ronald Dahl - British Novelist

"What would you do if you knew you could not fail?"

- Unknown

"While some see those who dare to dream as out of touch with reality, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are ultimately the ones who do!"

In the movie "Coach Carter", Timo Cruz is asked by Coach Carter what is your deepest fear...

"Our deepest fear is that we are not inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.  We were all meant to shine as children do. It is not just in some of us - it's in ALL of us!"

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."

- Dan Reeves

"Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can."

- George Allen