What's well begun is half done.
The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
And to the C students, I say, you too, can be President of the United States
This president was not a good student in college or law school.
You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.
He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.
I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing.
My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.
The quote that helped me the most with my life was: It only gets better when you get better. That woke me up.
'God helps those who help themselves.' - it's a very true saying.
She told me, 'I didn't raise no quitter.' That coming from your mom, that's powerful words. That's all I needed to hear. That just drove me. I just took it in and ran with it.
My father said, 'You're not going to make it.' That took a lot of pressure from me. I took football like a hobby.
A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.
Play every game as if it is your last one.
God help those who do not help themselves.
Success comes in cans, failure comes in can'ts.
When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.
Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!
As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.
President Bush delivered a commencement speech at a university in Wisconsin. A very inspirational speech. Apparently Bush told the students, 'You can do anything in life if your parents work hard enough.'
If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.
I hadn't played that much before, and it was all about practicing with the University of Texas coaches. It's takes some expert to look at me pitching a ball and saying, 'we have to find the mother f**ker in you, boy!'