Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

I've seen a lot in my life. I've seen a lot of winning. I've seen a lot of testing times. I think when you're tested, you really find out what you're made of.

To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

The English summer is never far away

Water is soft and humble, but it is the most powerful and is the most endurable.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in.

Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

Why do you want to open the outside door when there is an inside door?