If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.