MESSAGE #956 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST

The
best and fastest
way
to learn
a sport
is
to watch
and imitate
a champion.

Jean-Claude Killy
winner of three
Olympic gold medals
in alpine skiing

MESSAGE #955 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT COACH PATERNO

Success
without honor
is an
unseasoned dish.
It will
satisfy your hunger,
but
it won’t
taste good.

Joe Paterno
head football coach
Penn State
since 1966

MESSAGE #954 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT WORLD CHESS CHAMPION

You can only
get good
at chess
if
you love
the game.

Bobby Fischer (1943-2008)
the 11th world chess champion

MESSAGE #953 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT CAPABLANCA

You may learn
much more
from a game
you lose
than
from a game
you win.
You will have
to lose
hundreds of games
before becoming
a good player.

Jose Capablanca (1888-1942)
chess superstar

MESSAGE #952 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT TONY ROBBINS

If you want
to be successful,
find someone
who has achieved
the results
you want
and copy
what
they do
and
you’ll achieve
the same
results.

Tony Robbins
motivational speaker
and author

MESSAGE #951 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT GREAT COACH

I’m not
a
yeller.
My theory
is
that
no one
goes out there
trying
to screw up.

Amy Ruley
head women’s basketball coach
North Dakota State University

MESSAGE #950 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT MARVA COLLINS

There is a
brilliant
child
locked inside
every
student.

Marva Collins
super educator

MESSAGE #949 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT GOETHE

Treat people
as if
they were
what
they
ought to be
and
you
help them
to become
what
they
are capable
of being.

Goethe (1749-1832)
German writer

Thank you, Deborah Rotella

MESSAGE #948 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT BOB SPOUSTA

Hard work
beats
talent
when
talent
doesn’t
work hard.

Bob Spousta
head coach of crew
George Mason University

MESSAGE #947 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

Ninety-nine percent
of the
failures
come from people
who
have the habit
of making
excuses.

George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
botanist, educator, & inventor

MESSAGE #946 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT DAN GABLE

Gold medals
aren’t
really made
of
gold.
They’re
made of
sweat,
determination,
and
a hard-to-find alloy
called
guts.

Dan Gable.
1972 Olympic
gold medalist in
wrestling

MESSAGE #945 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT SUPERMAN

Clark Kent
is
who
I am.
Superman
is
what
I can do.

Superman
superhero

MESSAGE #944 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT ANN TRASON

IT
HURTS
UP
TO A POINT
AND THEN
IT
DOESN’T GET
ANY WORSE.

Ann Trason
ultramarathon superstar

MESSAGE #943 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT GREAT COACH

Flatter me,
and
I may not
believe you.
Criticize me,
and
I may not
like you.
Ignore me,
and
I may not
forgive you.
Encourage me,
and
I may not
forget you.

William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
inspirational writer

MESSAGE #942 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT COACH JIM DIETZ

As long as
you put in
the work,
you can own
the dream.
When
the work
stops,
the dream
disappears.

Jim Dietz
head women’s crew coach
UMass Amherst

MESSAGE #941 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT ROY WILLIAMS

Hard work
doesn’t
guarantee success,
but
without it
you
have no chance.
I always want
people
to know
that
nobody’s
going to
outwork me.
I may screw it up.
I may make a bad substitution.
I may call a bad play.
But there’s no way
that any other coach
can outwork me.
And that’s
what motivates me
every
single
day.

Roy Williams
head men’s basketball coach
University of North Carolina

from the book
“Hard Work”
by
Roy Williams

MESSAGE #940 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT LARRY BIRD

Even when
I lost,
I learned
what
my weaknesses
were
and
I went out
the next day
to turn
those
weaknesses
into
strengths.

Larry Bird
pro basketball superstar

MESSAGE #939 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT GREAT PARENT

If you
can give
your
son or daughter
only one gift –
let it be
enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton (1886-1967)
writer and
advertising executive

MESSAGE #938 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT GREAT GREAT

Don’t say
you don’t have
enough time.
You have
exactly
the same number
of hours per day
that were given to
Helen Keller,
Louis Pasteur,
Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson,
and
Albert Einstein.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
writer

MESSAGE #937 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT MIA HAMM

You may get
skinned
knees and elbows,
but
it’s worth it
if you score
a spectacular goal.

Mia Hamm
soccer superstar

MESSAGE #936 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

The price
of
excellence
is
discipline.
The cost
of
mediocrity
is
disappointment.

William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
inspirational writer

MESSAGE #935 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT OVID

There
is no
excellency
without
difficulty.

Ovid (43 BC – A.D. 17)
Roman poet

MESSAGE #934 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT ELI WIESEL

The opposite of love
is not hate,
it’s indifference.
The opposite of art
is not ugliness,
it’s indifference.
The opposite of faith
is not heresy,
it’s indifference.
And the opposite of life
is not death,
it’s indifference.

Eli Wiesel
Holocaust survivor
Nobel Peace Prize winner

MESSAGE #933 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT STEVEN WRIGHT

When
I was
a kid,
they told
me
that,
“Practice makes perfect.”
Then
they told
me
that,
“Nobody’s perfect.”
So . . .
I stopped practicing!

Steven Wright
comedian

MESSAGE #932 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT LARRY BIRD

A winner
is someone who
recognizes
his
God-given talents,
works
his
tail off to develop them
into skills,
and
uses
these skills
to accomplish
his
goals.

Larry Bird
pro basketball superstar

MESSAGE #931 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT ALAN MILLER, CEO

If you’re
going to quit
after an obstacle,
you’re in trouble
because
you’re going to have
another one.
You’ll have
to overcome
that one too.
People who
can do that
can have
a very successful career
and
contribute to society
and
feel worthwhile.

Alan Miller
founder & CEO
Universal Health Services

MESSAGE #930 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT AYN RAND

A creative man
is motivated
by the desire
to achieve,
not
by the desire
to beat others.

Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
author of
“The Fountainhead” &
“Atlas Shrugged”

MESSAGE #929 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT WILLIAM GAINES

Most of my
major disappointments
have turned out
to be
blessings in disguise.
So whenever
anything bad
does happen
to me,
I kind of
sit back
and feel --
well, if I
gave this
enough time,
it’ll turn out
that this was good,
so I shouldn’t
worry about it
too much.

William Gaines (1922-1992)
publisher
“Mad” magazine

MESSAGE #928 - HOW TO BE THE NEXT JOAN BENOIT SAMUELSON

Every time
I fail,
I assume
I will be
a stronger person
for it.

Joan Benoit Samuelson
gold medalist
1984 Olympic marathon