People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

I'm pretty much always planning two albums ahead.

Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.

A child needs freedom within limits.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.