He forced himself into good spirits.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

We don't deserve anything; we must work for everything.

I don't believe in dreams. I believe in going after it.

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

Produce results on the mat and in the classroom

Academics and wrestling, you cant separate the two.

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

Here, there, every where

You can’t change the past. But with God’s help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path . . . a better path . . . His path.

There are a great many opinions in this world and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse.

Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.