I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.

You are what your record says you are.

If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.

The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.

Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.

Potential means you haven't done anything yet.

But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do.Drop dead.Aw, you say the most romantic things.

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

As long as I can sustain myself and as long as people like what I am doing and are happy to support me to continue, that is success in my eyes.

I found out I'd been signing my name wrong. You know, like with the alphabet they teach you in preschool. But I think I've got it right now.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.