You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.

Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway.

Faith is believing beyond the power of reason, when they're all against you. To one who has faith, no explanation is possible. To one without faith, evidence is necessary.

The moon was wide—too wide and too close. Mentally, Simon told the moon to stop being so close and bright and that it should just generally shut up with the mooniness.

If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.

Gray is the color of all theory

Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.

Math is the language of the universe.

Who is it can read a woman?