We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.
Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for getting old and kids’ll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
The excuses we make destroy the results we deserve
For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.
