It's not about talent, it's about heart. It's about who can go out there and play the hardest. They're not going to give us anything, so you've got to go out there and you've got to take it.

I played for the best coach who ever lived, Henry Iba. I wasn't intimidated by Adolph Rupp.

Conversion is not a single prayer. Conversion is pilgrimage.

One lives in the very present moment

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.