“I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.”

No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.

You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!

Never give up, never ever give up.

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.

The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.

I like to make statements on the field.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.