Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

Percy was getting tired of water.If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon’s Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn’t care.

I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.

When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.

Jaypaw narrowed his eyes. "I'm not as blind as you think.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.