Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.

Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.

The Best Thoughts are often those which are spoken without giving any thoughts.

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.

We need more competitive races, ... We need the voice of moderation.

Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

You care enough to play hard to get.

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.