"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

"Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet."

"Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"It is a enduring truth that experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson."

"When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them."

"It is a steadfast truth that experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson — an essential principle for the reflective life."