Bud Wilkinson Quotes

#1. Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.

Bud Wilkinson

#2. I'm too old to be a yuppie.

Hillary Clinton

#3. Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.

Bud Wilkinson

#4. The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.

Bud Wilkinson

#5. Although the rumors are of Apple doing an iWatch, I think that design idea is actually too limited.

Tim Bajarin

#6. If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.

Bud Wilkinson

#7. Play against the Game, not your opponent.

Bud Wilkinson

#8. All the world is in your shadow, Zahra.

Jessica Khoury

#9. Arkadia wrapped her arms around his waist and laid her head upon the muscular cliff face he called his chest.

Dzintra Sullivan

#10. Losing is easy. It's not enjoyable, but it's easy.

Bud Wilkinson

#11. The most terrible wars of history, the two major wars of the century, have nothing to do with religions.

Richard Dawkins

#12. I crouch hidden among the boulders, my body broken and bloodied. Below me, someone is about to murder my best friend, the one person who understands me. If I act, I will likely lose my own life. If I don't, I'll lose so much more ...

Rae Carson

#13. Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples.

Pope John Paul II

#14. When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life
trust, love, mercy, and altruism
then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature.

Steven Weinberg

#16. Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.

David O. Selznick

#17. Men are less forgiving than women.

Samuel Richardson

#18. Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.

Bud Wilkinson

#19. Any man may believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and be happy in that belief, and yet not obey his commandments, and at last be cut down for disobedience to the Lord's righteous requirements.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#20. He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

James Stockdale

#21. The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.

Gautama Buddha

#22. If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Bud Wilkinson

#23. We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?

Bud Wilkinson

#24. Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

Bud Wilkinson

#25. Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.

Bud Wilkinson

#26. The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.

Bud Wilkinson

#27. Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.

Bud Wilkinson

#28. You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

Bud Wilkinson