The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

I teach children to be winners.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I eat next to nothing.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

Passions are the gales of life.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

Enemies are so stimulating.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.