My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.
If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.
Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.
Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.
Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing much, just watching as one watches birds flying in the sky. Just Lying down on the ground and watching, nothing to do, indifferent. Not your concern really, where they are going; they are going on their own.
A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.