I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

I am actually nondenominational.

I am just trying to get biblically stronger.

Did we not look out together upon the dark waters of the lakeAnd behold there the constellationsOf both hemispheres at once?-Love Songs of the Cinnamon Wastes

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.

Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.

His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.

Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse.

I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.