If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.

Confidence is only born out of one thing ­ demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.

In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

I got more money than I can spend now.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.