A champion is not defined by their wins but how they recover when they fall.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.

Don't let your failures define you.

For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night. . . . I felt lucky to get my shoes on the right feet. . . . I moved forward only, thinking each morning anew that we were leaving the worst behind.

The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.

"Lift off" takes a tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension.

The gravity pull of some of our habits may currently be keeping us from going where we want to go.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

Don't just cope, walk in victory.