Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself.

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.

Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway.

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.

All of my bad ideas were always my best.

We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.

Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.