Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
A single rose can be my garden. . . a single friend, my world.
There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.
I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.