I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

I like being unconventional.

Think, Act, Become

Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody?

The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him.

I don't think there's anything I can't do. I have no regrets.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.

The key to enjoying the journey is being open to the unknown

When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.