As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around the game.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

I still think I am the greatest.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

I think it’s funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

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

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

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

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.