My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.

Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season.

Determination is the strength needed to succeed.

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.

Why we are gentlemen if life is not gentle with us?

I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.

It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.

A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.

I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.