“Desire something and don’t just care what you have to go through to get it.”

Luck is for the ill-prepared.

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

Discipline is what you use when you don’t want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.

Marijuana. That’s not a drug, that’s a plant.

Political courage is not political suicide.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

Love stories are built around people’s idiosyncrasies.

Every year I make a plan. I do it. It will be done.

Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.

I didn’t mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

People get very creative if you include them.

Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.

Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.

In America you’re conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ’s sake?

When I was 20 or 21, I didn’t… I won’t say care about anything, but you’re like in your own world – you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.

I don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

I don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.