“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”

“O, the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!”

“When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.”

“Extremity is the trier of spirits.”