I can just remember being broke, wondering if I had any talent - really wondering whether this was all a fantasy - but I had to get out there and keep trying.
I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.
I can tell if I'm being lied to or manipulated a little better than most. It's definitely an advantage for me.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.
I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.
I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator.
One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'
I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
A friend of mine suddenly announced she had written a novel and got a publishing deal; I thought, 'Hang on... if she can do it, I can bloody well do it, too.' That novel went to a bidding war, and went on to be a huge best-seller.
Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.
I know I can be a way better player as a shortstop than I can at third.
I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
I'm not dreaming of any podiums or any medals that I can put around my neck. I'm just focusing on what I need to do today in order to be better tomorrow.
