When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.