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

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

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.

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it?

The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.

My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.

I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired.

Earth endures; Stars abide.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!