Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.

If I can take it, I can make it.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.

Worry is a god invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray.

I don't think anything is the opposite of love.

I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end.

Another day. Get up and face it.

I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of it. That's kind of how I think about it.

A lot of coaches play percentages when it comes to me, but that's just a way of saying that you can't stop me.