"Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important."

“Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.”

“Tyson is a lot better than I thought, a lot better. People can talk about Spinks all they want... Tyson is the true champion.”

“Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.”

“If the angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning; to be a beginner.”

“How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.169

“As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.”

“In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.”

“[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.”