We shall not fail or falter
we shall not weaken or tire...
Give us the tools
and we will finish the job.
--  Winston Churchill

The entire community has been supportive
of our program and you need that support to win championships.
We have built something here, but we can't
be satisfied with what we have done in the past. It's just that, the past.
--  Jeff Caldwell

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you,
too, can become great.
--  Mark Twain

This was definitely a disappointing season
because our goal was to advance in the playoffs, ...
It`s got to be motivation for us in the offseason.
--  Nicole Ohlde (member of WNBA's Phoenix Mercury)

Leadership is getting players to believe in you.
If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to,
you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony.
And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
--  Larry Bird

Leadership is the art of getting
someone else to do something you want done
because he wants to do it.
--  Dwight Eisenhower

Great players and great teams want to be driven.
They want to be pushed to the edge.
They don't want to be cheated.
Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy.
--  Pat Riley

You need to play with supreme confidence,
or else you'll lose again,
and then losing becomes a habit.
-Joe Paterno

Winners make it happen. 
Losers let it happen.
-George Lehmann

A good coach will make his
players see what they can be
rather than what they are.
-- Ara Parashegian

I can accept failure,
everyone fails at something.
But I can't accept not trying.
-- Michael Jordan

Adversity is a fact of life.
It can't be controlled.
What we can control is how we react to it.
-- Henry Ford