I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
All sports are games of inches.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Be cool to the pizza dude.
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
Win or lose, do it fairly.
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
The future is much like the present, only longer.
Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
Nobody's more important than the team.
