"With expectations, the only ones that really matter are the ones you put on yourself."
- Yannick Noah, former French Open champion explaining how heightened expectations would affect his son, Joakim Noah, when the younger Noah decided to play for a second NCAA Men's Basketball title with the Florida Gators. The Gators became back to back champions ( Read more... )

Ando Masahashi (in Japanese): "There are 12 and a half million people in this city. Not one of them can bend space and time. Why do you want to be different?!"
Hiro Nakamura (in Japanese): "Why do you want to be the same?!"
-from the TV Series Heroes (season 01 episode 01).

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."
- from the movie A Cinderella Story.

Santiago Muñez: "I don't even know where home is anymore..."
Roz Harmison: "Yes you do. It's green and it has a goal post on both ends."
- from the movie Goal!

"Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, ( Read more... )

"For sure you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found elseways everyone would know where it was."
- Captain Barbossa, from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

"Maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it no matter what."
- Christopher Gardner, from the movie Pursuit Of Happyness.

"There may be people who doubt you but you can never doubt yourself."
- Amare Stoudamire, on being selected an NBA All-Star after missing almost all of last season due to injury.