Thibodeau Quotes

#1. Courage knows no gender. Courage knows no race. Courage comes from within, from a deeply ingrained sense of duty, from service to something bigger than just yourself...from love.

James Kuiken

#2. You have to have core values. What do you believe in? Do you believe in hard work? Do you believe in discipline? Do you believe in conditioning? Because those are the things I know that do work.

Tom Thibodeau

#3. The challenge is not to get caught up in the hoopla. To understand what goes into winning - stay focused, you've got to be prepared, you need an edge. If you get lost in all the other stuff you're not going to be prepared to play well.

Tom Thibodeau

#4. You're a sum of all your experiences.

Tom Thibodeau

#5. The guys who take shortcuts, who aren't ready, they fail when their opportunity comes

Tom Thibodeau

#6. You have to have a mentality. This is a business. This ain't hanging out having a good time

Tom Thibodeau

#7. The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

Helen Garner

#8. Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

Tom McCall

#9. People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too

Tom Thibodeau

#10. There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.

Kevin Bacon

#11. Practice is important. The regular season is important. Your meetings are important. Your walk-through is important. Everything is important. You want to be a championship team, there's a price to pay. And that's what you have to do. There's no shortcuts. You can't shortcut your way to success.

Tom Thibodeau

#12. It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

Steve Jobs

#13. Always be chasing the sun. All we can do, is try, and live like we're still alive.

Sara Bareilles

#14. You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams

Tom Thibodeau

#15. Statistically, this wasn't merely unlikely. It was like being struck by a three-mile-wide meteor the day you hit the Powerball jackpot and walking away from the impact. Patently

Evan Currie

#16. In all my years one thing has never changed; You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes

Tom Thibodeau

#17. There are no short cuts. If you want to do something special, there's a serious price to pay. There's no way around it.

Tom Thibodeau

#18. Frankie and Carter Thibodeau would revert to what they'd been before: smalltown losers with little or no jingle in their pockets.

Stephen King