If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I’m not just sitting around anxious for the game.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

When you write a song like ‚Forrest Gump,‘ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.