Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.

For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they've come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it's something a lot of inner-city African-Americans can relate to.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

I was never one of those kids that felt like I had to go to practice or that I was being made to go to practice or forced to play the game. Baseball was a natural fit for me.

Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.