When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....

The best is the enemy of good.

Love never dies... when death is not the end.

While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.

Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.

Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.