"You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together."

"Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."

"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."

"What's going on in the inside shows on the outside."

"The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion."

"Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss."

"When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat."

"A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team."

"A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning."

"You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game."

"Discipline is not a nasty word."

"Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change."

"There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength."

"Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission."

"You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again."

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

"Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there."

"That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one."

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

"All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years."

"Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it."

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."

"Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak."