My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

The beauty in being blessed with talent is rising above doubters to create a beautiful moment.

A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord.

The moment you give up, is the moment you let someone else win.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change.

Use your success, wealth and influence to put them in the best position to realize their own dreams and find their true purpose.

If you want to be great at something, there’s a choice you have to make. What I mean by that is, there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that. Family time, hanging out with friends, being a great friend, being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be.

We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, ‘You’re a failure’ . . . I think that’s almost worse than death.

The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real.

Trust me, setting things up right from the beginning will avoid a ton of tears and heartache…

I create my own path. It was straight and narrow. I looked at it this way: you were either in my way, or out of it.

We can always kind of be average and do what’s normal. I’m not in this to do what’s normal.

Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.

It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you—or don’t. So don’t take it lightly.

"When you make a choice and say, 'Come hell or high water, I am going to be this,' then you should not be surprised when you are that. It should not be something that is intoxicating or out of character because you have seen this moment for so long that ... when that moment comes, of course it is here because it has been here the whole time, because it has been [in your mind] the whole time."

"I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury -- unless it's completely debilitating -- I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming."

"The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful." 

"I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

"I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses."

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

A ring of gold in a swine’s snout, is a beautiful woman who is without discretion.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting get understanding.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?

For whoever is joined with all the living, there is hope.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions.

I discovered that wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness. Foolishness leaves you in the dark. But wise or foolish, we all end up the same... we all die and are soon forgotten.

“Who is the wise man? He, who sees what’s going to be born.”

“A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

For everything there is a season, and a time for very purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to break down, and a time to build up, a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent.

It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

You are better off having a friend than to be all alone. If you fall, your friend can help you up. But if you fall without having a friend nearby, you’re really in trouble. 

Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish woman pulls it down with her own hands.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”

“If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.”

“All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.”

“Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

“As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”

“Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.”

“Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.”

“In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.”

“A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.”

“A fool is wise in his eyes.”

You’ll never make me believe women were made to walk on stilts.