It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.  Vince Lombardi

It's not how hard you can hit, it's how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.  Rocky Balboa

There ain't no kind of dream without some kind of debt.  The Mollys

Try not.  Do or do not.  There is no try.  Yoda

The Power of positive thinking (book title).  Norman Vincent Peale

Knowledge is not skill.  Knowledge plus 10,000 times (repetitions) creates automatic execution.  Shinichi Suzuki

Never give in.  Never give in.  Never, never, never... Winston Churchill

See the glass as half full.  Understand that as you try to fill it, the glass will get bigger.  Taken from "Zen Guitar" by Philip Toshio Sudo

See both hands as one.  Avoid overthinking.  Rely on the memory and intelligence of your muscles.  Taken from "Zen Guitar" by Philip Toshio Sudo

You're gonna eat lightning, and you're gonna crap thunder!  Micky Goldmill

Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.  Henry Threadgill