I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close.

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.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Time crawls when you are bored

No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary.

For some folks fate has set countless falls and a fewer loves. If they farewell faith, then, farewell their chance of lifelong happiness.

We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.