If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.

We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.