“In basketball – as in life – true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it’s no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you’re going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what’s happening right this moment.” – Phil Jackson

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

 — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

– Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Every morning I wake up saying, I’m still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

~ Jacques Cousteau ~

“I never worry about action, but only about inaction”

— Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Thomas Jefferson

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ~Benjamin Franklin