What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
This is the beginning of a new day.
I have been given this day to use as I will.
I can waste it, or use it for good.
What I do today is important
because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes this day will be gone forever,
but I shall hold something which I have traded for it.
I shall not regret the price I paid for it.
I want it to be gain not loss, good not evil, success not failure.
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"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything."
Vince Lombardi
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"Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."
Vince Lombardi
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"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
Arthur C. Clark
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"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures."
Vince Lombardi
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
Muhammad Ali
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"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."
Jim Rohn
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"It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men."
Vince Lombardi
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
Dale Carnegie
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"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another; it is the only means."
Albert Einstein
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"Nobody who ever gave their best effort regretted it."
George Halas
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph W. Emerson
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"Excellence is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
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“Winners Find a Way – Even When There Isn't One”
John Avianantos
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"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."
Lucille Ball
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"Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
George Patton
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"Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do."
Albert Gray
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit."
Aristotle
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"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
Theodore Roosevelt
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"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose."
Ross Perot
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"If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk."
Bill Rodgers
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"Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team."
Dot Richardson
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"In ourselves are triumph and defeat."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."
Joe Paterno
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"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks."
Joe Paterno
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"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck."
Channing Pollock
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"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."
Muhammad Ali
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"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers
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Becoming a Man of Character
All members of Wolcott Eagle Football and the Wolcott Eagle Strength and Conditioning teams should develop and demonstrate honorable character traits through the pursuit of individual and team achievement. We also believe that successful athletes have a special opportunity and responsibility to inspire children and even adults that admire their accomplishments to develop and demonstrate good character.
Characteristics of a man with good character
A Person of good character lives his life according to the six pillars of character:
1. Trustworthiness
Do - Stand up for your beliefs by your principles. Maintain the courage to do what is right. Keep your word.
Do not - Do anything you know in your heart is wrong.
2. Respect
Do - Listen to the older more experienced people you come into contact with. Their experience may give you valuable information as you chose your own path. If you want to be respected it must be earned, it cannot be just handed to you.
Do not - Automatically disregard someone's advice because you don't know them. Expect to be given respect because of the position you hold.
3. Responsibility
Do - Everything you do involves a choice. Strive to do your personal best at all times. Accept responsibility for the consequences of your choices. Develop self control under stress.
Do not - Make excuses or blame others. Don't look the other way and hope someone else will cover for you.
4. Fairness
Do - Be open minded. hear what others have to say. Get all the facts before making a decision. Be fair in all your dealings with others. Play by the rules.
Do not - Be closed minded. Cheat. Play favorites. Take advantage of others. Blame others for your shortcomings. Cut corners.
5. Caring
Do - Show compassion for others. Be considerate of others. Put the team ahead of yourself. Express gratitude. Give praise generously.
Do not - Be mean or cruel towards others. Be selfish.
6. Citizenship
Do - Live up to your obligations to your family, school, class and team. Do your share.
Do not - Expect other people to pick up the work load.
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
-Babe Ruth
Dedication and Commitment is what transfers dreams into realities.
-JT
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
-Herschel Walker
Nobody ever drowned in sweat
-Unknown
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
-Charlie Finley
There's no substitute for guts.
-Paul "Bear" Bryant
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital
-Joe Paterno
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
-Ronnie Lott
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
-Unknown
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
-Vince Lombardi
The game isn't over till it's over.
-Yogi Berra
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work equals miracles.
-Bob Richards
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
-Seneca
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
-Vince Lombardi
The winners in life think constantly in terms I can, I will and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
-Dennis Waitley
The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves.
-Anonymous
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
-Bo Jackson
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it
-Gale Sayers
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
-AJ Kitt
We must either find a way or make one.
-Hannibal
Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big
-Anonymous
You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feel good to show some courage.
-Joe Namath
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them.
-Robert Frost
He who stops being better stops being good.
-Olivernes.
To be prepared is half the victory.
-Miguel Cervantes
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-Vince Lombardi
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
-Steve Young
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
-Vince lombardi
Everyone has the desire to win, but only champions have the desire to prepare.
-Unknown
There's No Easy Way.
-Allan Wells
If a man does his best, what else is there?
-George S. Patton
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
- Ernest Hemingway
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
- Ernest Hemingway
