Quotes from Bud Wilkinson

If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.

You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.

Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.

Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.

Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.

We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?