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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.


When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.


The mind is just another muscle.


I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.


I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.


The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.


I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.


You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.


I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.


I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.


Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.


The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.


To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.


The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.


My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.


You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.


War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.


Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.


I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.


I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.