“I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.”

“I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.”

“Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.”

“Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.”

“A bad attitude is the only true handicap.”

“To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.”

“I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.”

“Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.”