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“Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course—the distance between your ears.”

- Bobby Jones

“I’m about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right.”

- Ben Crenshaw

“When the world says, Give up, Hope whispers, Try it one more time.”

- Author Unknown

“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”

- Dale Carnegie

“Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.”

- Author Unknown

“My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can’t do that, then I have failed as a coach.”

- Bill Parcells

“Failure is the only option, if success is the end goal.”

- Larry Weinzimmer and Jim McConoughey

“I don’t do things HALF-HEARTEDLY. I know that if I do, then I can expect HALF-HEARTED results.”

- Michael Jordan

“One man can make a difference. But a team can make a miracle!”

- Doug Pederson

“Always let grace have the last word. We’ll only lose the arguments our pride insists on winning.”

- Bob Goff

“Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore. It just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.”

- Bob Goff

“Everybody wants to make a difference in the world; only a few people want to be different than the world.”

- Bob Goff

“No one expects us to love them flawlessly, but we can love them fearlessly, ferociously, and unreasonably.”

- Bob Goff

“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.”

- Bob Goff

“You don’t need to take all the steps, just the next one.”

- Bob Goff

“God doesn’t give people influence so they can lead others better; he does it so they can love people more.”

- Bob Goff

“Losers are people whose words are bigger than their actions. Winners are people whose actions are bigger than their words.”

- Unknown

“You win in life with people. And I’ve had a lot of great people in my life.”

- Pat Summitt

“Great works, and great folly are sometimes indistinguishable at the outset.”

- NASA Mars Rover (Curiousity) Team Leader

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Weak minds discuss people.”

- Socrates

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

- Napoleon Hill

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

- Henry Ford

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”

- C.S. Lewis

“We can count how many seeds are in the apple. But not how many apples are in the seed.”

- Ken Kesey

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

- Henry Ford

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