It's hard to create new friendships outside sports.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

Don't be normal. Be an example.

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible.

As a competitor and an athlete, you have to believe in yourself. And you have to believe in the people who believe in you.

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.

We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

I want to make someone's life better because I'm here. If you have that attitude it will change your day and change your life.

Love means never having to be apart

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.

The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

My brother and I are best friends.

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain.

Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in Excalibur. That was the first thing I said to her. "I loved you as Morgan Le Fay."