They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you, and keep away from people who bring you down.

Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction.

There comes a point where you have to stop trying to repair yourself and accept the fact that you're broken.

Patience wins the race.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

We need a new religion.

Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.

Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.