There were hard days but I never felt sorry for myself.

If you want to be successful, you are going to have to deal with pressure.

You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure.

I'm real conscious about money still. That's how I came up and you can't shake that.

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Experience has taught me a lot, and I don't want to let that fall by the wayside.

If somebody attacks me with words, I'm always like, Do you know me? Do you know me that well? Let's have a beer and talk about it.

I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

The stereotype of a leader is one who talks and peps people up and things like that, but in actuality you have to listen to your teammates.

Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

[On Regis Philbin:] He's like everybody's kid brother with his hand in the cookie jar and his foot in his mouth. You love him, but you can't take him anywhere.

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.