"You are never a loser until you quit trying" - Mike Ditka, one of only two people to win NFL Super Bowls as a player, an assistant coach and a head coach.
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- Liverpool appear to support Rafa
- Change of Culture at Chelsea
- With firing the entire team not an option, hastily...
- "The difference between a successful person and ot...
- Hiddink doesn't rest on laurels
- Where are all the goals?
- Is an away tie a win in the Champions League?
- "Luck is what happens when PREPARATION meets OPPOR...
- Solskjaer turns down Norway job offer
- A great definition of EFFORT
- Tactical game of chicken: who changes for who?
- The truth comes out
- United boss' praise for Mourinho
- Out of the Mouths of Babes
- Messi: One player doesn't make a team
- Insight into pre-season preparations with FC Dallas
- Berbatov hungry for title addiction
- Like father, like son
- How do you prepare for Man Utd?
- Mourinho is Sir Alex's kryptonite
- Can United win the 'quadruple'?
- Dufty makes jump to MLS
- "Things may come to those who wait, but only the t...
- Hiddink next in the Chelsea hot seat
- Squad depth the key for Ferguson
- Was Scolari prepared to meet the expectations of C...
- Hart brings in Kidd at Pompey
- The hardest job for a goalkeeper is being an under...
- Revolution’s Michael Videira back home
- Bradley, US proves tough enough against Mexico
- "You are never a loser until you quit trying" - Mi...
- Giggs' greatness mirrors Ferguson
- Defining Toughness
- Grella signs with Leeds United
- US awaits derby in 2010 World Cup Qualifying
- Be prepared in sports and life for when 'Sudden Ch...
- Disputing refs rarely worth fuss
- Develop a plan to fully realize athletic goals
- Players make systems work
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"NOTHING GREAT WAS EVER ACHIEVED WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
MJ's book list - what he's read most recently
- Carter - Yes Ma'am, No Sir: the 12 Essential Steps for Success in Life
- Coffey, Wayne - The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
- Ehrmann, Joe - InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives
- Frankl, Viktor - Man's Search For Meaning
- Gordon, Jon - The Energy Bus
- Gordon, Jon - The Seed
- Gordon, Jon - Training Camp
- Kyle, Chris - American Sniper
- Michels, Rinus - TEAM BUILDING: The road to success
- Woods, David - UNDERDAWGS: How Brad Stevens and Butler University built the Bulldogs for March Madness
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
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