If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don’t need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.

Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.

[photography]... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way.

There is an illusion that has much to do with ... most of our unhappiness. ... We expect too much.

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

Why do they call it losing your virginity, anyway? It's Not Like I don't know where I left it." "You'd be surprised how many people don't.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.