Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

Good things come to those who hustle

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

Poetry gives the greatest pleasure.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

Life's too short not to sleep when you feel like it.

the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.

You're an entropic chaos factor

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.