If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

One man can make another's life so much better.

Newspapers should have no friends.

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.