“I've been shot at and missed and shit at and hit. That's a saying out of my childhood and it's come true more than a few times along the way.”

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

“she's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her- a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for(Luke)”

“I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found that the imaginative world had pushed the real world right out of the way, and was literally more real.”

“You're not built for riding, either," Horace added. "I'd say more saddle sore than homesick."Svenal sighed ruefully, shifting his buttocks for the twentieth time to find a more comfortable spot."It's true," he said. "I've been discovering parts of my backside I never knew existed.”

“There were a few times when Mother Nature hit me with her best shot, but I always managed to land on my feet.”