Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.

Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.

People suddenly expected less of me and I didn't want that. Not only could I keep up with sighted kids, I could excel. I have an intense competiveness that was always in me.

I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.

If you want to be known for whom you are as a person, then your responsibility it to make your qualities more visible. I believe if you don't you are becoming a victim.

Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do sports.

There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having macular degeneration and losing their sight.

Symbols, ” Langdon said, “in no way confirm the presence of their original creators.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.

Basketball is what I do, it’s not who I am.

Apology is both transactional, in that it restores what has been broken to what it was before, and transformational, in that it creates opportunities that didn't exist before.

I'm not hiding from anyone. I am who I am, and I'm not perfect.

his voice was centuries old

It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.