Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential, ' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.

Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.

I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.