If you think you can do it, you can.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Know or listen to those who know.
Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.