I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.

BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.

I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.

What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in deliberate practice. This is the key to exceptional achievement.

We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

I still don't have any crushes on actresses or models. It's always been one of those things with girlfriends. They say, "Who's on your list?" What do you call it, the Get Out of Jail Free card?

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

I guess I'm a Luddite.

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

The blood of Christians is seed.