Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

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.

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

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

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Your gift lies in your soul.

Your ambition is the most reliable alarm clock.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

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gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy.

Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

America is an unusually religious nation.