Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

Don't be normal. Be an example.

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible.

As a competitor and an athlete, you have to believe in yourself. And you have to believe in the people who believe in you.

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.

We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

I want to make someone's life better because I'm here. If you have that attitude it will change your day and change your life.

Why not? Why not anything? If God ain’t a God of why nots, than I say ‘Why bother, ’ and I don’t think that’s takin his name in vain, I think it’s tellin the truth about what people need.

Don't frustrate yourself by mistaking "associates" for "friends"! Everyone doesn't have your back. Identify the people in your life & don't expect them to be, who they're not!

Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel

You play for the team, you don't play for the fans.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

In three strides Reaver was on her, his mouth crushing hers. “No more bullshit,” he said against her lips. “I want you. I think I’ve always wanted you.

You don't know what you can do until you try.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.