I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from ….

[The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function. Doing things. And so on. S….

I think confidence is something you build gradually, with experience. I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and….

The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burni….

The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United ….

Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that ….

I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually..

I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence..

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two..

Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the Unite….

I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. Lacked self-co….

So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The ast….

I find I'm luckier when I work harder..

I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you….