He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.

There's more to me than just this jersey I wear, and that's Christ living inside of me.

If you don't fall how are you going to know what getting up is like.

Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.

Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the floor, people should know who I represent, who I believe in.

Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles.

Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it.

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

That's what novels are: They're amalgams of archetypes, collections of random traits one observes in other people through life, blended into fresh characters.

world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up.

I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate.

I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.

Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.

When you're tanner, you feel hotter and sexier. You should try it

I don't see how that is any of your business." Stupid, shiny Volvo owner.