I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

Don't be normal. Be an example.

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible.

As a competitor and an athlete, you have to believe in yourself. And you have to believe in the people who believe in you.

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.

We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

I want to make someone's life better because I'm here. If you have that attitude it will change your day and change your life.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

When there are rock festivals where there are sometimes 120,000 people and they're all sold out and they're epic, I think rock is alive and well, and hopefully it stays that way.

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.