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.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, ‚You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.‘

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

I’m about being the best.

I’m not a natural born performer.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

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.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Never complain. Never explain.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

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

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.