Jim Tressel quotes

“Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything.”
-- Jim Tressel

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“The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.”
-- Jim Tressel

Source : Jim Tressel (2010). “The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life”, p.100, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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“Play with heart; Play with passion; Play within yourself; Have fun; Play like a champion.”
-- Jim Tressel

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“I told (my wife) that there's a three-month aftermath that you better be able to handle, because it's real. I think the worst thing we could do is push it away and say, 'Hey, it's not happening. We don't have time for this,' because we worked so hard to get to that point. ... But the reality is (our opponents the next year) are going to come after us.”
-- Jim Tressel

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“Success is the inner satisfaction and peace of mind that come from knowing I did the best I was capable of doing for the group.”
-- Jim Tressel

Source : Jim Tressel (2010). “The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life”, p.5, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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“Everything that happens-good and bad-should motivate you to be persistent.”
-- Jim Tressel

Source : Jim Tressel (2010). “The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life”, p.136, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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“There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts.”
-- Jim Tressel

Source : "The October 11th Football Press Luncheon". www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com. October 11, 2005.

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“I believe that when we write things down, we being the process of activating the fundamentals in our lives.”
-- Jim Tressel

Source : Jim Tressel (2010). “The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life”, p.28, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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“I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.”

“I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.”

“Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.”

“No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.”

“I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."”

“I'd rather stimulate your mind than emulate your purpose”

Source : Song: The Guidelines, 1998

“Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.”

“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.”

“Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.”

“Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes”

Source : "Beastie Boys: 'We can't make new music' and may never play live again" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.