No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

I get paid to practice. I play the game for free.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

Leadership comes with consistency.

The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.

I want to be the best. That's just the human way.

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.