As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Your friend is your needs answered.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

Friends accept you the way you are.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

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.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

I like to look good, my friend.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.