Listen to how everyone is talking about you. You have to use it as fuel for motivation.

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.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.

Sin has invaded God's creation, and we live now in a fallen world.

The sky, with a single star, would be dark and boring. A million stars in the firmament makes for something wondrous and bright.

Because I seeA rainstorm in JuneJust before the sunThe black of nightJust before the starsAnd, girl, I see your ghostJust before our dawn

I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.