“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.”

“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.”

“I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.”

“Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,And think perchance they'll sell; if not,The lustre of the better yet to showShall show the better.”

“The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.”

“In finance everything that is agreeable is unsoundand everything that is sound is disagreeable.”