There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is..

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready..

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win..

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game..

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in..

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better..

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable..

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball..

Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN pea….

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values..

A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of such motivat….

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump sh….

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 ….

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush..

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one..

Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated..

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly..

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be prese….

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 person….