When we understand the privilege of what it means to be an athlete, we are in touch with, and rejoice in, our physical, mental, and emotional strengths and our endless possibilities.

In the beginning you likely say, 'I run.' With more confidence, you say, 'I am a runner.'

I believe that by living as athletes we live more fully.

Our sport becomes not just what we do but an integral symbol-on all levels-of who we are.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed. His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

I have so many wonderful people in my life. I've never had any major physical problems or an accident or anything like that. I'm a very, very lucky person, thus far, knock on wood.

It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.

There are certain songs that if people come up to me and tell me how much that song meant to them, I think, You should have better taste, then, because I don't really like that song.

She never was really charming till she died.