If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Start where you are, use what you have.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

The prize is as big as the fight in you to get it.

the gravity of wound to fist

We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.

People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.

I am just what I am, I'm just what you see. So I'll make it easy, I'll stay me.

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

Questions [about our healthcare system] are not hard because the answers are complicated, they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves.

I am not going to come back and play IPL. Have a few plans and may play a few matches here and there.