Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

Marxism is what has seduced American liberals - well, liberals worldwide, communists, all leftists.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.