no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Becoming is better than being

If you don’t give anything, don’t expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

...it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.