Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.

The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.

Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

Humility is what we want other people to have.

I discovered that forgiveness is a path to freedom.

Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story.

The stronger women get, the more men love football.

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

The best feeling in the world, is to be able to help someone else other than yourself.

Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

Leben verstehen wir Deutschen vielleicht nicht, aber sterben, das können wir fabelhaft! (We, the germans, might not be able to live, but to die, that we marvellously)

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.