The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Everywhere you travel to, be fully there.

Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again my memory echoes…my people die for lack of knowledge.

I might do a fitness video. Actually, more of a fatness video.

Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.

Ultra competitive people who always need to win end up enjoying things less.

There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.

You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.