You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.
You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable.
My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
Anger, hatred, fear, is very bad for our health
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.
You can do anything you want to. Follow your dreams; because if you say you can't do it, you'll spend the rest of your life proving it.
When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.
Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.
The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.
