People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

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.

Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. “ ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.

I'd rather go with something eccentric--but beautifully eccentric.

I'm not interested in your limiting beliefs, i'm interested in what makes you limitless.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.

It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.

Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.