Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.

If you enter a race and finish last, you are a winner. The loser never entered the race.

Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.

When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself) emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.

Coasting only takes you downhill.

Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional.

You can t coast uphill.

When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.

Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.

Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.

In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.

New York is a different breed than any other city there is. Media can be very hard on you at times, but [Patrick Ewing] did handle it like a man. He was able to prosper in that whole atmosphere.

My job is my own only land.

On any given night, I can throw a shutout.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.