A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

If you have a good date, it's nice to text them afterward to say "thanks." But if they were totally lame, it's fun to text "unsubscribe."

There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It's simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit.

Gather every promise. This is Jesus, the life of every grace, the life of every promise, the life of every ordinance, the life of every blessing.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

The question is: How do we succeed in Iraq? And you don't succeed by leaving before the mission is complete, like some in this political process are suggesting.

Each of us is present, but partially.

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it exist as intensely as I could.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.