Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

Art should create an experience.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.