//these are your quotes - we've included three var message = new Array( '"What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player." - John Wooden', '"You miss 100% of the shots that you don\'t take."', '"The harder I work the luckier I get."', '"Winning is about having the whole team on the same page." - Bill Walton', '"The best man defense looks like a zone and the best zone defense looks like a man."', '"The only important shot you take is the next one."', '"Nothing will work unless you do." - John Wooden', '"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail." - John Wooden', '"On perfection - A good garden may have some weeds." - John Wooden', '"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden', '"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It\'s courage that counts." - John R. Wooden', '"It\'s what you learn after you know it all that counts." - John Wooden', '"Happiness is the journey not the destination." - John Wooden', '"Happiness begins where selfishness ends." - John Wooden', '"The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success." - John Wooden', '"One of the highest compliments you can be paid is that you are a person of your word." - John Wooden', '"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." - Christopher Morley', '"Winning is overemphasized. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war." - Al McGuire', '"If you pay attention to the grandstands...it won\'t be long before you join them."', '"First master the fundamentals." - Larry Bird', '"Players are made in the off season, teams are made during the season."', '"It comes a time when WINTER asks you what your did in the SUMMER."', '"Great effort springs naturally from great attitude." - Pat Riley', '"It takes no talent to hustle." - Hans Schmidt', '"The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for the common goal." - Dave DeBusschere', '"A person really doesn\´t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that\´s bigger than himself." - Jim Valvano', '"Individual commitment to a group effort. That\´s what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." - Vince Lombardi', '"POST PLAY: 1. Play low - 2. Play wide - 3. Hands up - 4. Feet active."', '"Play hard, play smart, play together, have fun." - Morgan Wootten', '"The most important thing in basketball: BE A TEAM."', '"Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates." - Magic Johnson', '"Don\'t ever underestimate the heart of a champion."', 'Having parent problems? Remember - "The ideal team to coach has 12 excellent athletes... all orphans."', '"Everybody knows how to boil water and coach basketball."', '"I don\'t mind starting the season with a bunch of unknowns. I just don\'t want to finish the season with a bunch of them."', '"When you lose, don\'t lose the lesson."', '"A winner never quits, a quitter never wins."', '"Most games are lost, not won." - Casey Stengel', '"If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you\'re going to have problems. You\'ll be dead a lot." - Dean Smith', '"I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air." ~ Norm Sloan, on zone defense', '"Basketball is not played simply with X\’s and O\’s. It\’s played with both trust and confidence." - Isiah Thomas', '"One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn\'t do you any good." ~ Abe Lemmons', '"The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle."', '"The harder I work the luckier I get."', '"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight... it\'s the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight Eisenhower', '"Don\'t give up, don\'t ever give up." - Jim Valvano', '"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven\'t done much today." - Mike Krzyzewski', '"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Henry David Thoreau', '"Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals." - Dr. James Naismith, the father of basketball', '"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit." - Robert Yates, owner of Dale Jarrett\'s racing team', '"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson', '"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime."', '"The worst thing you can do for someone is something that they could and should do for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln.', '"When the going gets tough, the tough gets going." - Billy Ocean', '"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle', '"It\'s not what you achieve, it\'s what you become."', '"Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."', '"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."', '"Show me a guy who\'s afraid to look bad and I show you a guy you can beat every time." - Lou Brock', '"Don\'t wallow in the mud with pigs. You\'ll get dirty and the pigs will like it." - Lorrie Ardoin', '"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." - Winston Churchill', '"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton', '"If you don\'t climb the mountain, you can\'t see the view."', '"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you\'ll land among the stars." - Les Brown', '"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you\'re climbing it." - Andy Rooney', '"If you can\'t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen." - Harry S. Truman', '"If it was easy, everyone could do it." - Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) in a League of Our Own', '"The mind grows by what it feeds on." - J. G. Holland', '"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy', '"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." - John F. Kennedy', '"Leaders are like eagles - they don\'t flock. You find them one at a time." - Knute Rockne', '"The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everybody else up." - Mark Twain', '"We must all hang together, else we shall hang seperately." - Benjamin Franklin on signing the Declaration of Independence ', '"If at first you don\'t succeed, you are like most people." - M. H. Alderson ', '"He who stops being better stops being good." - Oliver Cromwell', '"Some of us are like wheelbarrows - only useful when pushed and very easily upset." - Jack Herbert', '"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." - William A. Ward ', '"The shortest distance between two points is always under construction." - Noelie Alito ', '"Please all, and you will please none." (Aesop)', '"I don\'t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby', '"Be sure you are right, then go ahead." - Davey Crockett', '"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh', '"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein', '"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt', '"No one knows what he can do until he tries." - Publilius Syrus', '"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt', '"You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough." - Joe E. Lewis', '"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." - Rita Mae Brown', '"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you." - Frank Tyger', '"The best things in life aren\’t things." - Art Buchwald', '"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt', '"One who makes no mistakes never makes anything."', '"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory." - Rita Mae Brown', '"Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile." - Sean Connery', '"When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade." - Dale Carnegie', '"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."', '"Great minds have purposes. Little minds have wishes." - Washington Irving', '"Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls." - Lou Holtz', '"All battles are won before they are fought." - Sun Tzu', '"I never wanted to be famous, I just wanted to be great." - Ray Charles', '"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue." - Anonymous', '"Don\'t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain', '"Some people always want the front of the bus, the back of the church, and the center of attention." ', '"I\'m not allowed to comment on lousy officiating." - Jim Finks, New Orleans GM when asked after a loss what he thought of the refs', '"I asked him, \'Son, what is it with you, ignorance or apathy?\' He said, \'Coach, I don\'t know and I don\'t care.\'" - Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president on a former player', '"He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings." - Tommie Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins', '"Son, looks to me like you\'re spending too much time on one subject." - Coach Shelby Metcalf, speaking about a player who received 4 F\'s and a D one semester', '"We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all of our games are played indoors." - Weldon Drew', '"There are really only two plays... Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket." - Abe Lemons', '"I\'m not overweight, I\'m just nine inches too short." - Shelley Winters', '"Every teenager should stay in school and get a high school education and diploma, even if they already know everything."', '"How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke-filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key." - Senator Bill Bradley, prior to the 1988 Presidential campaign', '"We can\'t win at home. We can\'t win on the road. As general manager, I just can\'t figure out where else to play." - Orlando Magic GM Pat Williams struggling thru a tough season.', 'How to beat a much stronger opponent: Score first and hit the fire alarm!', '"Just think, if it weren\'t for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all."', '"Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was \'shut up.\'" - Joe Namath', '"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and having the two as close together as possible." - George Burns', '"Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end."', '"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."', '"As long as there are exams, there will be prayer in public schools."', '"Never answer an anonymous letter." - Yogi Berra', '"It\'s deja vu all over again." - Yogi Berra', '"When you come to a fork in the road....Take it." - Yogi Berra', '"I usually take a two hour nap from one to four." - Yogi Berra', '"You can observe a lot by watching." - Yogi Berra', '"If the world were perfect, it wouldn\'t be." - Yogi Berra', '"If the people don\'t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody\'s going to stop them." - Yogi Berra, when managing the losing Mets.', '"overwhelming underdogs" - Yogi Berra\'s description of the 1969 NY Mets.', '"The future ain\'t what it used to be." - Yogi Berra', '(On a West Coast trip): "It gets late early out here." - Yogi Berra', '"If you can\'t imitate him, don\'t copy him." - Yogi Berra ', '"I\'d find the fellow who lost it, and if he was poor, I\'d return it." - Yogi Berra, answering Casey Stengel\'s question, "What would you do if you found a million dollars?"', '"I didn\'t really say everything I said." - Yogi Berra', '"The similarities between me and my father are different." - Dale Berra, Yogi Berra\'s son ', 'Ponder this: "What happens if you get scared half to death twice?"', '"If the mailman stopped to worry about every barking dog, he\'d never get the mail delivered."', 'Ponder this: "If carrots are so good for the eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the road?"', 'Ponder this: "I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges."', 'Ponder this: "Just because you don\'t think your paranoid, doesn\'t mean they aren\'t really after you."', '"All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism."', 'Ponder this: "How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?"', '"Even if you are on the right track, you\'ll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers ', '"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket." - Will Rogers', '"Don\'t squat with your spurs on." - Will Rogers', '"Lettin\' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier \'n puttin\' it back in." - Will Rogers', '"If you\'re ridin\' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it\'s still there." - Will Rogers', '"If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin\'." - Will Rogers', '"Never slap a man who\'s chewing tobacco." - Will Rogers', '"Never kick a cow chip on a hot day." - Will Rogers', '"Never miss a good chance to shut up."- Will Rogers', '"Always drink upstream from the herd." - Will Rogers', '"There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves." - Will Rogers', 'Did he really say that?: "Half this game is ninety percent mental." - Philadelphia Phillies manager Danny Ozark', 'Did he really say that?: "The word \'genius\' isn\'t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theisman, NFL quarterback & sports analyst.', 'Did he really say that?: "We\'re going to turn this team around 360 degrees." - Jason Kidd, when drafted by the Dallas Mavericks', 'Did he really say that?: "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father." - Greg Norman, Pro Golfer', 'Did he really say that?: "Sure there have been injuries and even some deaths in boxing - but none of them really that serious." - a ringside boxing analyst ', 'Did he really say that?: "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again." - a baseball announcer', 'Did he really say that?: "It isn\'t pollution that\'s harming the environment. It\'s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." - Al Gore', 'Did he really say that?: "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." - Dan Quayle', 'Did he really say that?: "It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago." - Dan Quayle', '"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life." - Herbert Henry Asquith', '"The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for."', '"One of the many things no one tells you about getting old is that it is such a nice change from being young."', 'On getting old: "One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been."', '"Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable."', '"When you (old people) are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth, remember Algebra."', 'On getting old: "I don\'t know how I got over the hill without getting to the top."', 'On getting old: "I intend to live forever - so far, so good."', '"It doesn\'t matter who scores the points, it\'s who can get the ball to the scorer." - Larry Bird' ); // if you want to include more quotes - increase the number three to how many you have var max = message.length; var rand = Math.floor(Math.random() * max); //this writes the quote to the page document.write(message[rand]);