Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

In the suburbs it's hard to buy your Christmas gifts early in the year. You never know who your friends will be in December.

Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.