As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Never, never, never give up.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

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

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.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Football is a sad game.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

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.

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

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.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.