American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.
It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself
A successful person never loses. . . they either win or learn!
You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.
If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out. . . I wont recruit them
The biggest thing is you cannot be afraid to miss the game-winning shot. It's not that you want to make it; it's that you're not afraid to miss it. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong. You have to have amnesia. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong.
Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.
If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.