If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.

As the sun knows

I am not imposed upon by fine words

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.