Whatever brings you down, will eventually make you stronger.

Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it's never really over until the whistle blows.

Everybody has a talent, but its what you do with that talent to make it great.

Keep working even when no one is watching.

Dream big, because dreams do happen.

Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats.

... Really get to know and establish relationships with your teammates because they are your new family and they will be the ones there for you when anything goes wrong.

I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.

I think a goal is a goal and not all my goals are pretty.

The way I've been brought up to is take critiques and turn them into positives in my game.

Messi is out of this world. Scoring 86 goals this year... In 2012. What an incredible accomplishment

I'm raised from gutter to protect another gutter

You’re going back?” asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. “You’re really leaving? But. You’re my guardian.”

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.

There is no self-portrait of me.

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.