I don't know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still pick up things. If you watch individual players you will see genius.

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

Don't whine. Find the positive in difficult situations.

To some, challenges are exhausting. To others, they are opportunities in waiting.

The smartest thing is knowing that I don't know it all and that there's more to learn.

Have a vision and then create your own reality. Otherwise, someone else may create it for you.

Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.

When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point.

If I win, I attract other good players and by doing that I win more games.

As soon as my lips touched hers, something happened... My chest tightened so much that it hurt, and I almost couldn’t breathe. - Mako Delmar

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.

When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.

I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.

In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs.

Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.