If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

One chance is all you need.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

Every solider believes in war till the time he actually fights it.

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first li

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.

Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.

Even people who can't communicate can fall in love.

I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.