Mike Ditka Quotes

Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.

Promises are empty words if you’re not keeping them.

The shoulder surgery was a success. The lobotomy failed.

People want a cop-out, listen I’m a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

Can’t make chicken salad out of chicken noodle

Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!

Here’s what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We’re given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

I’m not going to make it the all – everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I’m not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past.

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.

If you’re not in the parade, you watch the parade. That’s life.

We have a strange and wonderful relationship – he’s strange and I’m wonderful.

I think it’s important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can’t do them as well and as much.