The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic.

There's no question in my mind: not only am I going to be able to make it through 16 games, I'll make it through another five years.

Work hard, do things the right way, and things will go your way.

You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.

Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw.

There comes a point in the game where you gotta make a play or you gotta do something to get your team over the hump, and when that time comes you gotta be able to do it.

Everyone runs their own race.

I think people just like rooting. If they like you, they're going to want to root for you and you're one of theirs. And if they don't like you? It doesn't matter.

I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before - and from other years, too - to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step.

I feel like I'm going to be with the Cowboys the rest of my career, definitely. I love it.

Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview--you'll be interviewing the next guy.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.

I take acting lessons with my coach, and what do I get famous for? Holding a puppy!

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.

Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.