If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

I was too much of an extremist to be able to live under the eye of God and at the same time say both yes and no to life

Parenthood is a walk in the park...A park full of scorpions that you can't leave without jumping through fiery hoop on a pogo stick.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

It is better to struggle pursuing what matters than to excel at achieving the inconsequential.

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.

I've pushed myself to push toward things that disturb me. I've developed a habit of recording these things because these things often disappear.

MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.