Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
When you’re not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.
The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That’s the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.
Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.
I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that’s unfortunate.