The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

I don’t compare myself to anybody.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.