Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven.

Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.

In triathlon you don't get to race that much so when you're on the start line you just need to make sure you focus on the job in hand and enjoy yourself.

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly!

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

Great players make great plays.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.