As a 16-year-old, I was 5-foot-5 and maybe 145 pounds. It was hard to believe a guy like that was going to make it to the big leagues.

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

I wasn't the tallest kid when I was little.

Only those who never step, never stumble.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.