I'm not the most patient of people...

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue.

Too many people never catch tomorrow as they let go of today. Capture the precious now instead of holding onto the hope of tomorrow.

Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Wear it if it clashes.

Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.