Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.

But I'll tell you more about that later... or maybe I won't, because some wounds just don't heal even if you talk them out. On the contrary, the more you dress them up in words, the more they bleed.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.

Wait, I kinda do love you.

Stars were made to suffer, and I am a star.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

In other words, learn your Scruggs's rolls before trying to play like Bela Fleck.