To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

My dad is my biggest musical inspiration.

There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.

Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.