As a competitor and an athlete, you have to believe in yourself. And you have to believe in the people who believe in you.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

Don't be normal. Be an example.

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible.

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.

We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

I want to make someone's life better because I'm here. If you have that attitude it will change your day and change your life.

I'm blessed, because of my faith, that I don't have to worry about the future because I know who holds my future.

Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital

I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.

You guys just aren’t fair, between your vampire pheromones and your gorgeous good looks, we humans just don’t stand a chance.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population.