Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

Music in war is a candle in the darkness

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich is not so dark. I see.

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

I'm not sure cavemen had plumbers. They probably just used a hole.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!