To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Well done is better than well said.
Know or listen to those who know.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Only the educated are free.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.