Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen,...

The thing about fires most people don’t realise is the noise. It’s deafening so even if you shout, you can’t be heard three feet away. You can never quite get used to the fury of...

Cleverness is a false presumption’, Doc had explained, ‘it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before...

It’s who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what’s jealous of you the power to bring you undone.

Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the...

Over all this lay Hoppie’s dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a...

And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven.

While I told myself that each win was a small deposit on the ultimate ownership of the world welterweight crown, the enormous need in me to win touched a whole heap of other responses a...

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

The imagination is always the best torturer.

Never take advice from a donkey.

You couldn’t lose, you was playing Mozart

Always listen to yourself… It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.