Champions all get kicked when they're down.

One things guys have to remember is consistency... You can't make up for three years of eating poorly in just one workout.

I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

Broadcasting is definitely in my cards for the future, and I'm determined to work hard at it - to perfect it and create my style and niche.

Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud.

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.

I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.

Did you do every single thing you could today, to be your best?

The only way I could conceive of waving a white flag, would be during the process of folding it, so to be used as a napkin later, at our victory dinner.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn't hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.

Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.

I don't have to kill myself, time is going to do that.

I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?

I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.

SNL was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I dont have any regrets.

That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.