A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

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.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

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

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.