My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure

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.

A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one’s life is a good thing to do.

After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Donald Trump thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it's real.

I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

I'll never forget my friends and where I came from.

Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.