Honestly, I'm just trying to do the best I can with every opportunity I'm given, and when I'm given the opportunities make the most of them.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

Don't be normal. Be an example.

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible.

As a competitor and an athlete, you have to believe in yourself. And you have to believe in the people who believe in you.

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.

We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

I want to make someone's life better because I'm here. If you have that attitude it will change your day and change your life.

You can always tell who a writer subconsciously/consciously dislikes/hates/discriminates against in real life based on who they don't write about more than who they do.

We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

The unfed mind devours itself.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

I took one look at you That's all I meant to do And my heart stood still.

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.