Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

Don't bother explaining—I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.