Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.

I’d learned early on that the best way to accomplish anything was to grit your teeth and fight your way through it with the best grace you could muster…

Go that way, past the viaduct, and the wops will jump you, or chase you into Jew town...Polacks would stomp on you...Micks will shower you with Irish confetti from the brickyards.

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

My expertise is running businesses.

This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

I enjoy yoga a lot, not even for the workout.

Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.

Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.