Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
—Joe Paterno
Topics: Action, Act, Goals
The minute you think you’ve got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
—Joe Paterno
Topics: Success is not everything
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
—Joe Paterno
Topics: Success
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
—Joe Paterno
Topics: Preparation
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
—Joe Paterno
Topics: Excellence, Losers, Losing, Loss
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional.
—Joe Paterno
Topics: Effort, Performance
What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.
—Joe Paterno
Topics: Sports
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
—Joe Paterno
Topics: Confidence, Pride
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
—Joe Paterno
Topics: Confidence, Teams, Teamwork
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
—Joe Paterno
Topics: Confidence
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