Ben Howland Quotes

You're as good as your next game, not your previous, so I'll focus on the next one.

You just have to always go out and continue to work hard, watch the film, see what you did wrong from an offensive unit and individually. Then, you just have to go out and do better the next time out. That is what sports is all about.

There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there.

You have to execute. You have to sacrifice your body.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

Don’t expect to succeed with most of your efforts. Ted Williams, the best baseball hitter of all time, in his best hear only hit 407. He did not succeed 60 percent of the time.

Almost everything you do fails. To develop a great success we must have thousands of failures along the way

I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

All commitments require sacrifice and hardship.

It's nice to say you have goals and that you want to win championships. But until you get thrown into the fire, you can't truly grasp what it takes to accomplish those goals.

You have to go through a lot of trials and tribulations as a player to be able to grow and learn from 'em and to become better.

Success doesn't find you when you're alone in your house.

It is not a secret that I want to get better every day with every game.

I had to play a certain way to get in the league. That's kind of where I came from. I wouldn't change a thing going back, I wouldn't change anything that happened.

We're going to have to work. We're going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

No person should become complacent by his/her work and think that he/she has done their best.

I learned in the past that winning takes care of everything. As long as I am worried about winning and doing the right things, everything will work out for me.

We're not the kind of people to just take a break and say everything's going good, you know, let's rest on our laurels, act like rock stars - we take it very seriously, and we certainly aren't just celebrating and doing a victory lap.

You can always get bigger, faster, stronger. I don't have any choice. I have to.

It's really important that young people realise very rarely do you become an overnight success.

I've never met a successful person in any walk of life - from Michael Dell to Peyton Manning to Barack Obama - that when you ask that person, 'Hey, how did you get here, and what was your road like?' They say, 'You know what? It was really easy. I slept in all the time, turned my papers in late, didn't pay attention to people and my surroundings.'