The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

I've always admired people who are over-prepared.