The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

If you want it, you've got to give it.

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.

Courage is a warrior, wisdom is a sage, virtue is a priest, and love is poet.

Courage is a daring spirit.

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

I've always been a goal scorer. Playing both ways is something I wanted to do coming into the league.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

Jewelry is incredibly feminine, and reflects the grace and beauty of a women's style like nothing else.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.