I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

We'll stop it, even if my body crumbles to bits I'll stop it with my soul!

Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.

Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.

Now that I think about it, this might all have been inevitable. The reason we all ended up here, the reason I couldn't leave her alone...it all had to be a ridiculous fairy tale.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory.

Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.