Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

I had the greatest year of my career in 2007. It's a year that I'm very proud of.

The more you play baseball, the less depends on your athletic ability. It's a mental war more than anything.

I'm never happy with my performance.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.