Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.

The presence of happiness doesn't require continuous positive experiences

Everything transitory is but an image.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second.

We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.

I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.

The fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own face in order to keep mine from getting bashed in

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

In those places of doubt and even darkness I've realized that who I am has nothing to do with wins or losses, applause, or negative criticism. It has to do with whose I am.