A Quote by Joe Gibbs

A winning effort begins with preparation.

Joe Gibbs

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Begins Effort Preparation Winning

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Joe Gibbs
American - Coach
Born: November 25, 1940

How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.

John Wooden

The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

Chuck Noll

As teachers and coaches, we must remember that when mere winning is our only goal, we are doomed to disappointment and failure. But when our goal is to try to win, when our focus is on preparation and sacrifice and effort instead of on numbers on a scoreboard then we will never lose.

Mike Krzyzewski

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

Joe Torre

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Winning begins at home. It begins with your thoughts and your actions.

Frederick Lenz

I believe you have to learn how to win. And that just doesn't come from going out on the basketball court and playing. That comes from hours and hours of preparation, preparation before that game, preparation for the other team you are playing, mental preparation.

Tobias Harris

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

Amby Burfoot

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

Lance Armstrong

I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.

Johnnie Cochran

...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.

Herman Melville

Winning is what happens when commitment, desire, talent, preparation, hard work, and leadership all come together.

Tom Coughlin

Winning friends begins with friendliness.

Dale Carnegie

Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.