My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.