Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

For some reason I seem to absorb the landscape and cultures where I am planted. A State Divided Symphony was inspired by the 150th anniversary of Missouri's entry into the Civil War.

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow.

There's no nobility in poverty.

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.