Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?
- Dan Gable

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- M. K. Casey

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
- Archie Griffen, two-time Heisman winner ( 5'9'')

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired- you quit when the gorilla is tired.
- Robert Strauss