“And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.”

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.

Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.

Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.

I can’t tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.

I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.

The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you’re ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)

Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.

Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.

But try if you can to support, whether it’s AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.

Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.

Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.

We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

I’m really proud, just seeing a lot of the kids that have been inspired by me.

The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.

To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

It’s the Tiger Woods effect. What he was able to accomplish at such a young age – he drew me to the game, and I can only speak for myself, but a lot of the players that are my age saw Tiger in his prime when we were all teenagers.

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don’t even think about that.

I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.

I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.