And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.

When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head!

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

Great moments are born from great opportunities.

The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it!

You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.

Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!

Silence upon silence, with a heaping pile of extra silence.

I have no news of my coming or passing away--the whole thing happened quicker than a breath

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.