Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.

World records are only borrowed.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

Forget about style; worry about results.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

Too aim is not enough, you must hit!

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

I don't play small. You have to go out and play with what you have. I admit I used to want to be tall. But I made it in high school, college, and now the pros. So it doesn't matter.

You can't rely just on talent to win.