Quotes by Executives

Inches make a champion.
Vince Lombardi
If you can't accept losing you can't win.
Vince Lombardi
Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touchdown act like you've been there before.
Vince Lombardi
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Vince Lombardi
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you'll be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi
Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.
Vince Lombardi
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi
Think of only three things: your God your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.
Vince Lombardi
Think of only three things: your God your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.
Vince Lombardi
Don't let other people tell you what you want.
Pat Riley
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
Faye Wattleton
I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.
Red Auerbach
Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi
Look for your choices pick the best one then go with it.
Pat Riley
You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.
Joe Torre
I read as if time were running out, because technically it is. As I grow older I find I'm increasingly impatient with mediocre entertainments; I want books that will take my breath away and realign my vision - Barbara Kingsolver
Pat Williams
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in between.
Pat Riley
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky
He taught me how small, day-by-day decisions add up to the great consequences and that every thoughtful and educated decision I made about my life would eventually lead me to a clear and more satisfying understanding of my calling.
Eric Motley
This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.
Larry Bird
The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.
Vincent Lombardi
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.
Pat Riley
There's no such things as coulda, shoulda, woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Pat Riley
Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?
Red Auerbach
the strength of open, unregulated information-sharing platforms is their responsiveness, not their insight or depth
Eric Schmidt i Jared Cohen
Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance
Pat Riley
Don't let reading make you arrogant. It can happen-believe me. Maybe you've even met a person or two like this, someone who thinks that being an English literature major or particularly well read puts them above the crowd. Take my advice:even if it's true, don't go there....I urge you to read, knowing the words you absorb will come out in your life in ways that inspire, uplift and encourage someone else. Life is meant to be passed on. Read with a servant's heart.
Pat Williams
Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today
Pat Williams
To me, the smarter you are, the more you want to learn - Ernie Accorsi
Pat Williams
By their hands, we succeed. By their arrogance, we prosper. They believed we would always play the game. Blocked by their certainty of our inferiority, they never imagined we would cease to collaborate in our own oppression.
Nichol Bradford
Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can’t take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can’t take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.
Faye Wattleton
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi