You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

If you want to be successful, you are going to have to deal with pressure.

You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure.

I'm real conscious about money still. That's how I came up and you can't shake that.

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Experience has taught me a lot, and I don't want to let that fall by the wayside.

If somebody attacks me with words, I'm always like, Do you know me? Do you know me that well? Let's have a beer and talk about it.

I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

The stereotype of a leader is one who talks and peps people up and things like that, but in actuality you have to listen to your teammates.

Vanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong

She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Well, I was named after Mick Jagger's daughter, Jade Jagger. How emasculating is it to be named after a girl! But I think I handled it well, it's not like I ended up wearing makeup and girl's pants.

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.

I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.