Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years...or as long as it takes to win.

Remember, before you can be great, you've got to be good. Before you can be good, you've got to be bad. But before you can even be bad, you've got to try.

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Win with your heart, not your head - win on emotion, not in logic; have a passion about what you do; nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach.

Think of everybody you talk to as having a flashing sign on their chest saying: Make me feel special!

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough.

A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a "cause" with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and needs.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

My dreams kept me trying when I could have quit.

A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.

Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.

Family jokes though rightly cursed by strangers are the bond that keeps most families alive.

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

This has been my most satisfying, my most gratifying, my most content year, and to culminate this way is perfection. (on the Los Angeles Galaxy's 2005 season)

The real issue is, how much goodwill do you invest in the work? And goodwill is not something that we can buy with money. It's very hard to buy goodwill with money.

What I love best in life is new starts.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.