I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

Oh my God ... YOU are real.Oh my God ... You ARE real.OH MY GOD ... You are REAL!Oh my God ... You're really real!

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.