I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.