When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Practice, the master of all things.

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.