MVQ
This page serves as an archive for the Most Valuable Quotes (MVQ) column.
8/28/2008 - Any time you think you have the game conquered the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose. - Mike Schmidt
8/26/2008 - The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it — every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. - John D. Rockefeller III
8/14/2008 - The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered
by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. - Plato
8/06/2008 - The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. - Kahlil Gibran
8/01/2008 - You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give. - Winston Churchill
7/30/2008 - There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell
7/28/2008 - To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France
7/24/2008 - Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve. - W. Clement Stone
7/21/2008 - The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare. - Thane Yost
7/10/2008 - Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch
excellence. - Vince Lombardi
7/8/2008 - Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - John D. Rockefeller
7/7/2008 - Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin
7/1/2008 - Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. - Confucius
6/30/2008 - To win without risk is to triumph without glory. - Pierre Corneille
6/26/2008 - Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be. - Mike Ditka
6/12/2008 - The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw
6/10/2008 - Success isn’t something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared. - Sparky Anderson
6/06/2008 - I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. - Vince Lombardi
6/05/2008 - Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it. - Andre Agassi
6/03/2008 - To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. - Tony Dorsett
6/02/2008 - At one point in your life, you’ll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t. - Andy Roddick
5/29/2008 - One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
5/28/2008 - Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time. - Lou Brock
5/27/2008 - A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. - Joseph Campbell
5/12/2008 - “A couple of decades ago, sports was not entertainment – sports was sports and entertainment was entertainment. Now they are one.” - David Carter (executive director of the USC Sports Business Institute)
