I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

No driver is perfect.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I give opinions, not advice.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

For me, education was power.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Better is the enemy of good.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.