Coaches Hot Seat Quote of the Day – Sunday – January 14, 2024 – Paul “Bear” Bryant
“Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.” Paul “Bear” Bryant
“Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.” Paul “Bear” Bryant
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” George Orwell
“We don’t talk about next year. We talk about today, and we talk about the next game. And that’s all we can really control. The rest of it will take care of itself.” Bill Belichick
“Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.” Nick Saban
“The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.” Dick Van Dyke
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” Bertrand Russell
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Charlie Chaplin
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” Aldous Huxley
“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” John Muir
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” Benjamin Franklin
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” John F. Kennedy
“We count on winning. And if we lose, don’t beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is – don’t lose.” Knute Rockne
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
“It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.” Adlai Stevenson
“The harder you work, the less mistakes you make. The fewer mistakes you make, the better your chances of winning.” Ara Parseghian
“A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That’s how I want you to play.” Mike Krzyzewski – Coach K
“And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” Jesus Christ
“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.” Gene Roddenberry
“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.” Jackie Robinson
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” Yogi Berra
“To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.” Steve Prefontaine
“I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don’t win games. Players win games.” Hank Stram
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” Pablo Picasso
The Road Not Taken
BY ROBERT FROST
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
“Action is character.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” John Dewey
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” Dr. Seuss