Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.
All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.
I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.
Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.
Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.
I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.
Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.
I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.
I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.
Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.
Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.
When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.
