I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.

There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.

Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.

Becoming a champion is not an easy process... It is done by focusing on what it takes to get there and not on getting there.

What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment.

We're not going to talk about what we're going to accomplish, we're going to talk about how we're going to do it.

One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.

Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful.

Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.

I don’t care what you did yesterday. If you’re happy with that, you have bigger problems.

Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.

You can call me namastunde or surfatunde. Either works.

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

I can't cater to everyone's needs and what they're going to be offended by; that's one freedom I have.