It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

The doer alone learneth.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

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.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

You fail only if you stop writing.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

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

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

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

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.