“But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'”

“Don't be like me. Be better than me. That's the goal.”

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

“I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.”

“I Own the guy guarding me”

“The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.”

“A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.”

“Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”