“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.”

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

“You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”

“Those that do teach young babesDo it with gentle means and easy tasks.”

“Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.”