Don't ever doubt yourself because there are enough people in the world that are going to doubt you.

It sounds like a cliche but there are no shorts cuts. You have to be very dedicated and challenge yourself everyday to be better.

You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there.

No matter what's going on in life, I can emerge myself into a game and I love it. Outside of my family, it's the love of my life.

It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen!

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

I was never one who looked at success as bad. For me, success was always good. I loved it, and still do.

We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.

The reason the United States is not aging rapidly in terms of its demographics is because we accept people as newcomers to this society in numbers that far surpass any of our major peers or rivals.

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.