This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

There is no substitute for victory.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

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

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Freedom lies in being bold.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.