Sunday Inspiration -- A Variety of Quotes Inspired By Bill Iannicelli

My College Coach, Bill Iannicelli, passed away a year ago this week. He was a principled man I feel fortunate to have known. Here are a variety of quotes that I picked inspired by his memory. 

“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.”
William James
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
“I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.”
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple observance of his example.”
Mario Cuomo
“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it . . . Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.”
Tennessee Williams
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” 
William Feather

“While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor—and to be mentored!—constantly.Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day—to teach and be taught.”

John Wooden