Mark Warkentin Quotes

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

When you play against Barcelona and other great teams in the world, you can lose. It happens.

Our philosophy doesn't change. We're always competing. But the ways to approach it and the ways to make that up and make it available to our players, there's no end to that. That's why the thought is that you're either competing or you're not, and that's why I'm learning and searching and trying to transfer information to our coaches and to our players.

That's what tournament football's all about. It's about finding your feet in the first game, finding what works, and gaining confidence.

I am looking forward to my next race. What comes, comes.

It's all about communication, culture and competing every day.

Knowing some guys are way bigger than you, way faster than you, you have to find other ways to do what you want to do.

You just have to get on with life, there's no alternative. You could curl up in a ball on your bed, but that's not going to achieve anything.

Rugby is a game that's constant. If you are not growing with it, you get left behind.

Sometimes you need to find ways to win games in different ways.

Things in life just happen and then you make the best of the situation and you keep moving.

Dont give up. Obstacles can be overcome through strategy and learning.

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try

I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it.

By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

make away out of no way

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.