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.

A man’s character is his fate.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

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.‘

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

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.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.