All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

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.

He was like her favorite type of candy, she realized, a bit sour at first but all sweetness in the long run. Admittedly . . . that tartness was part of the allure all along.

Savvy companies are quietly changing up their boards of directors and teams, and this is giving them better collective intelligence, more community admiration, and better financial results.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.

On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.

Stop, collaborate and listen.