A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.

Championships are not won on the night of a big event, but years before by athletes who commit themselves daily to championship principles

The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.

I got an attitude, that's rude because I walked over Elvis' grave in some blue suede shoes.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.

I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?