I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated

All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.

As long as you and I are still breathing, we have a purpose to serve

Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

What I accomplished definitely wasn't achieved by myself. Without others, none of this would have been possible.

You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.

In order to achieve great things in your life, you have to be consistent in what you are doing.

Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad.

Your attitude determines your aptitude!

Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability.

i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.

You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.

There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.

If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.

Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.

Happiness can be thought, taught and caught... but not bought.

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.