Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

by Gary Mack

‘Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.’”

Learn how to play with the paradoxes of sports. We don’t grow old. We get old by not growing.

“Success without honor,” Joe Paterno said, “is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.”

If you don’t stand for something, you can fall for anything.

In sports, unlike other, more vague areas of life, there is a scoreboard, time limits, rules, and a level playing field.

Sometimes we forget sport is not like life and look to sport to teach us about life. It’s more that sport reveals what we are already.

success is measured not in wins and losses but in the personal growth and development of young players.

Vince Lombardi said winning isn’t everything but making the effort to win is.

it’s always too soon to quit.