There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters.

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.

I've just got a really bad smile. I go for the scowl instead.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.

There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

I just really love being in my pajamas.

Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

Victory is very, very sweet. It tastes better than any dessert you've ever had.

I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.