basketball success

The key to success is to believe there are no keys - just success!

SUCCESS
Sucess is giving your best effort consistently.
Trying your best in each activity of each day is
the goal. When that is done, I believe success
has been achieved, regardless of the apparent result.

-Ed Schilling

Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another for thirty days -- but it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.

The secret of success is to be like a duck -- smooth and unruffled on top, but paddling furiously underneath.

Try not to become men of success. Rather, become men of value.

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

"Success has ruined many a man."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well."
- Denis Waitley & Rem L. Witt

One thing that keeps a lot of people from being a success is work.

To be successful, you have to keep moving. After all, no one stumbles sitting down.

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
- Teddy Roosevelt

"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure...it just means you haven't succeeded yet."
- Robert Schuller

"Success is a piece of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."
- John Wooden

"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."
- Wilfred A. Peterson

At God's footstool to confess,
A poor soul knelt and bowed his head.
"I failed." He cried. The master said,
"Thou didst thy best, that is success."

A man may make mistakes but he isn't a failure until he starts blaming someone else.

"Talent is the gift plus the passion -- a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it."
- Neil Simon

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

"Failure isn't fatal unless you let it be."
- Mike Ditka

Success consists of thinking ahead, of considering future consequences, and of taking consequences based on those considerations.

The three most important steps you will take: the last step, the first step, the next step.

You become successful by helping others become successful.

"Most players prepare for disaster. A good player prepares for success."
- Tony Alfonso

"Those who want to succeed will find a way; those who don't will find an excuse!"
- Leo Aguila

"The very moment one becomes BOUND and DETERMINED, is the very moment one becomes UNBOUND by what his or her previously limited thinking and circumstances had DETERMINED."
- Brian G. Jett

Success is knowing the difference between cornering people and getting them in your corner.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you're going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Don't accept 'good enough' as good enough.

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, Mother Theresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

There is no limit to the goals you can attain, the success you can achieve -- your possibilities are as endless as your dreams.

"In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it."
- Hesiod, Philosopher

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
- Anne Bradstreet

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
- Dale Carnegie

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
- Sally Berger

"The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you."
- Jerry Gillier

Do not stare up the steps to success, step up the stairs.

The door to the room of success swings on the hinge of determination.

"Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body, and soul."
- Charles Buxton

"For all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are theses: It might have been!"
- John Greenleaf Whittier

"He that is over-cautious will accomplish little."
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
- Mark Twain

"You cannot reach your goals unless you first stretch your imagination."
- Brian G. Jett

There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.