I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

I like being unconventional.

If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial.

Be kind. Only feelings of kindness can purify our ever judgemental minds.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

The venal herd. [Lat., Venale pecus.]

It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

I worry about you Bev. I worry a lot.