If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

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.

She chose to freeze her heart, and then stored it deep inside her freezer.She will let it there until she is ready.

It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven’t got a family of their own, they will invent one.

I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

I think dying is the ultimate high...

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my —