Cotton Fitzsimmons famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have a basic philosophy that I've tried to follow during my coaching career. Whether you're winning or losing, it's important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
-- Cotton Fitzsimmons

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You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day..
-- Cotton Fitzsimmons

#Optimistic #Good Day #Bad Day
If you're a positive person, you're an automatic motivator. You can get people to do things you don't think they're capable of.
-- Cotton Fitzsimmons

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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

Cotton Fitzsimmons famous quotes

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