Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.

Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much innovation.

I prefer being totally sober myself.

Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself. Remember that.

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

We see the universe the way it is because we exist.

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.