The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.

Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

Since I'm not a seller of the stock, I don't really care what it is today.

If you had to name one particular person to blame it would have to be one of the players

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.