There are so many people put there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me.

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me."

It's not so much what you do, it's just how well you do it, and that you do, do it.

You've always got to be aware of why you don't win; otherwise you'll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the same mistake again.

Have confidence in yourself and don't let people put you down or make you feel weak or worthless, because the more they put you down, the more you need to get back up and prove how wrong they are.

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one.

I haven't prepared as much as I would like to but it will be fun to get out there again. I have nothing left to prove in surfing but still have the desire to keep going.

Begin to acquire knowledge.

Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.