It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.

The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.

[Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are.

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.