Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison" He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life." "Ah, " she said ruefully. "That'll kill you.

If you want to do something in your life, share everything but never your ideas.

If God didn't mean for us to use drugs, It would never have made us such curious monkeys, nor given us so many interesting vegetables.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.

I'm identifying with the underdog. And it makes totally sense to me.

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

That has nothing to do with basketball. That's just because I'm sexy.