“The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.”

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

To move the world we must move ourselves.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Those who are hardest to love need it the most.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Be as you wish to seem.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.

There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

I have learned that champions aren’t just born; champions can be made when they embrace and commit to life-changing positive habits.

Just like life, a true champion in sports is one that comes back stronger from a setback.

I was lucky to get good coaches and infrastructure that I needed. To become a champion, it is not just a few months’ practice: it takes years to make a champion.

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you’re remembered for. It’s how you’re measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it’s at.