I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

Sometimes it's better to let people handle their own problems. Sometimes just believing in someone is the best way to stand up for them.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.

I'd say the key to a good relationship is communication .

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.