Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

Coffee, It's the life blood that fuels the dreams of champions!

The wisest man is he who is kind to all, compassionate to many, and rude to none.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Those who die never truly leave us. They are forever there beyond the shimmering of light at the edge of sight.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.