“Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best.”

A person can’t brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex.

My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.

It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game – play by play.

Anyone can support a team that is winning – it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

Desire and dedication are everything!

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you’ll beat him though he has more talent than you.

That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can’t acquire knowledge.

Every venture capitalist says at some point.

The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that.

A book travels for days, for years, sometimes for centuries to meet you at an exact point in time.

Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.