Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.