"Focus on what you're doing. Focus on the phases in front of them. Do everything you can to get the best at that phase and get ready to take the next step when it happens."

“Maybe they made me captain because I've been here so long. But if I'm supposed to lead by example, then I'll be a terrible captain.”

“Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.”

“We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.”

“My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.”

“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.”

“Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.”

Source : Susie Orbach (1988). “Fat is a Feminist Issue ...: How to Lose Weight Permanently - Without Dieting”, Hutchinson

“People said if [I] was at a party, it gave it prestige. I would let people know I'd arrived by letting off my flash... You could feel the temperature rise right away.”

“But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.”

Source : Josephine Humphreys (2000). “The Fireman's Fair”, p.50, Penguin