Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

Life is about collecting good people around you. You can’t have enough good people.

We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.

I just didn't like the way we were, in my opinion, being unfairly attacked. I just decided to do what was right for our family.

Anyone who starts piercing the bubble of happiness, get 'em out of your life.

One of my beliefs about leadership is it's not how many followers you have, but how many people you have with different opinions that you can bring together and try to be a good listener.

Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right.

Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.

Loyalty and friendship trumps politics for me.

Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn’t lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

No one knows what it's like ... to be a dustbin ... in Shaftesbury ... with hooligans.

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.

You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.

Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence.

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.