At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

I grew up in a funny way.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

I came up from a difficult background.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.