First we become the best, then we'll become first.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

What business does memory have with time?

In prison, you learn to count each day and each moment. You even count the bad 'meals' and the unbearable ones.

I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all.

Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.