Mr. Duffett's favorite quotations by https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett en-us 2013-04-21 21:29:48 UTC 2026-01-18 15:42:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Tom Izzo eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9166809 Learn to listen. Listen to learn

]]> 2013-04-21 21:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9166809 Kevin Durant eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9166810 Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

]]> 2013-04-21 21:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9166810 Alan Stein eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9166884 You don't have time to GET ready. You have to BE ready. Legends are made when thousands of hours of practice meets one moment of opportunity.

]]> 2013-04-21 21:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9166884 Jay Bilas eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9166919 Toughness isn't physical. It has nothing to do with size, strength, or athleticism. It's an intangible, an attitude, a philosophy.

]]> 2013-04-21 21:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9166919 Zig Zigler eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9166964 You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

]]> 2013-04-21 21:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9166964 Greg White eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9166996 Team defense has to be "help-based." individual defense should be "I don't need help." #guardtheyard

]]> 2013-04-21 21:52:05 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9166996 Greg White eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9167009 I don't discriminate. I hate turnovers of every kind. I dislike them all equally.

]]> 2013-04-21 21:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9167009 Mike Krzyzewski eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9167024 If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

]]> 2013-04-21 21:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9167024 Michael Jordan eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9205784 I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

]]> 2013-04-22 18:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9205784 Henry Ford eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9206041 Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!

]]> 2013-04-22 18:23:13 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9206041 John Wooden eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9206157 Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.

]]> 2013-04-22 18:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9206157 Thomas J Waston eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9206266 If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. Quit doing less-than-excellent work.

]]> 2013-04-22 18:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/9206266 Napolean Hill eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10210932 “Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.” 

]]> 2013-05-23 15:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10210932 Michelangelo eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10211047 The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

]]> 2013-05-23 15:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10211047 Popular Saying eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10211132 Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect

]]> 2013-05-23 15:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10211132 Albert Einstein eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10211149 Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result

]]> 2013-05-23 15:57:04 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10211149 Gary Player eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10211174 Never tell yourself you can't make a shot. Remember, we are what we think we are.

]]> 2013-05-23 15:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10211174 Henry Van Dyke eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10211208 Use the talents you possess; for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except the best.

]]> 2013-05-23 15:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10211208 Ernest Jones eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10211283 There are no secrets in golf. The secret of success is practice, constant but intelligent practice.

]]> 2013-05-23 16:01:08 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10211283 John Gordon eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10638268 Shout praise. Whisper criticism.

]]> 2013-06-11 19:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/10638268 Anthony Grant eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/11898749 Championships are built daily, not in one day.

]]> 2013-08-20 18:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/11898749 Ken Venturi eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/12778034 I don't believe that you have to be better than everybody else. I believe that you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

]]> 2013-09-09 15:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/12778034 Brian Tracy eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/12778330 I've fount that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

]]> 2013-09-09 15:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/12778330 William James eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/12778590 Act as if what you do makes a difference, it does.

]]> 2013-09-09 15:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/12778590 Joshua Medcalf eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/14572794 A sincere and specific compliment can change the trajectory of a person's life and it takes all of 30 seconds.

]]> 2013-10-10 18:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/14572794 Unknown eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448141 You can have results, or you can have excuses. You can't have both.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448141 Dick DeVenzio eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448311 Mental toughness is learning to do your best quietly, methodically, and without regard for tiny problems and adverse conditions

]]> 2014-01-16 20:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448311 Alan Stein eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448364 Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448364 Jon Gordon eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448391 If you love the process, you'll love what the process produces

]]> 2014-01-16 20:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448391 Zig Ziglar eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448411 People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448411 Larry Bird eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448650 I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:14:32 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448650 John Maxwell eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448673 Too many talented people who start with an advantage lose that advantage because they rest on their talent instead of raising it.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448673 Alan Stein eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448709 Great players don't train because they love training. They train because they love winning.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448709 Joshua Medcalf eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448820 True mental toughness is:

1) Having a great attitude

2) Giving your very, very best

3) Treating people really, really well

4) Having unconditional gratitude

REGARDLESS of your circumstances.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448820 Muhammad Ali eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448877 I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

]]> 2014-01-16 20:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448877 Bill Gates eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448940 Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448940 Joshua Medcalf eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448984 Some think that you become great on the big stage under the bright lights. But the light only reveals your work in the dark.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19448984 Alan Stein eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449065 The best way to grow and improve is to surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449065 Nik Stauskas eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449077 One of the most undervalued skills in life is the ability to accept criticism and not take it personally. That will take you far in anything.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449077 Joshua Medcalf eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449144 How would you use your 86,400 seconds today if you knew you were going to get the opportunity of your dreams?

]]> 2014-01-16 20:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449144 Alan Stein eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449183 Adversity is often a prerequisite to great accomplishments

]]> 2014-01-16 20:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449183 Rick Torbett eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449283 The pain of not achieving our goals is always greater than any pain that it takes to achieve our goals

]]> 2014-01-16 20:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449283 Don Shula eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449517 My responsibility is leadership and the minute I get negative that is going to have an influence on my team.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449517 Kevin Eastman eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449625 It's not the hard work that makes the player, it's the extra work.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449625 Jon Gordon eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449678 Being positive doesn't make you better, it makes everyone around you better.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449678 Alan Stein eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449714 Practice like you've never won, but play like you've never lost.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449714 Zig Ziglar eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449768 Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449768 Seen in the halls of N Lawndale HS eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449794 Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment

]]> 2014-01-16 20:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449794 Alexis Ohanion eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449905 Sucking is the first step to being sort of good at something. I encourage you to go forth and suck.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449905 Paul Fabriz eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449967 To be successful in life you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.

]]> 2014-01-16 20:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19449967 Alan Stein eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19478301 Are the habits that you have today on par with the dreams that you have for tomorrow? That's something that you need to ask yourself every single day. Because whatever you do on a regular basis today will determine where you will be tomorrow.

]]> 2014-01-17 12:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19478301 Aristotle eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19478595 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

]]> 2014-01-17 12:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19478595 George Washington eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19701076 We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience

]]> 2014-01-22 14:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19701076 Abraham Lincoln eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19701212 If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

]]> 2014-01-22 14:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19701212 Abraham Lincoln eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19701275 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

]]> 2014-01-22 14:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19701275 Robert Strauss eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19702517 It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

]]> 2014-01-22 15:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19702517 Bruce Jenner eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19702641 I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, writer, athlete, or businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't, you won't.

]]> 2014-01-22 15:08:29 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19702641 John Wooden eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19702787 Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

]]> 2014-01-22 15:09:43 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19702787 John Wooden eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19702912 If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

]]> 2014-01-22 15:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19702912 Conrad Hilton eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19703001 Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

]]> 2014-01-22 15:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19703001 Muhammad Ali eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19703228 The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

]]> 2014-01-22 15:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19703228 Unknown eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19703586 Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

]]> 2014-01-22 15:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19703586 Jack Nicklaus eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19703633 Achievement is largely the product of raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

]]> 2014-01-22 15:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19703633 John Wooden eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19703975 Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

]]> 2014-01-22 15:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19703975 Michelle Sadas eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19704042 It's not about what happens. It's about perspective. I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always change my thinking.

]]> 2014-01-22 15:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19704042 Unknown eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19704204 A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

]]> 2014-01-22 15:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19704204 Jeannie Boehm eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19855518 I hated it. I hated my strength trainer, and I probably went to him 3-4 days a week. I hated that my friends would call me from the beach while I was in the gym working on my game. I hated how hard I was being pushed. But then I got to the games, and I realized that it was all worth it. And it's in those moments of intense training where you hate it, that you have to remind yourself that it's worth it in the end.

]]> 2014-01-24 14:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/19855518 Unknown eric_duffett https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/37896323 Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

]]> 2014-10-20 18:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/eric_duffett/misterduffett/wish/37896323