The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that's where it's at.

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

There ain't no man can avoid being born average. But there ain't no man got to be common.