"It's not your strengths that keep you in the game; it's your weaknesses that throw you out."
- Brian Burke, Anaheim Ducks GM; February, 2007 Hockey Magazine East

 "You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone."

 "One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me. When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down."
- Mario Lemieux, NHL superstar

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 "Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision."

 "What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle."

 "Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball." 

 "At one point in your life you either have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't."

 "Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while......you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

 "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

 "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden, legendary college basketball coach