No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.

Words are incomplete and yet we need them. They are the cups that give our memories shape, and keep them from trickling away.

Running away from someone you love is a race you will never win.

Those who replace love in people’s life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit “pious”.

Smile, it enhances your face value.

He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said.

I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen to you, I'll feel better.

On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.

You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.