I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.

The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.

Coming off the last turn, my thoughts changed from 'One more try...one more try...one more try...' to 'I can win! I can win! I can win!

Every passion has its destiny.

You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

And what if I'm the one who kills him?" "My heart is your heart," he said, "My hands are your hands.

I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.

To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.