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

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

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.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it’s ready.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

We work to become, not to acquire.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way – but it has to be said the right way.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

That’s the one for my tombstone… Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Since childhood, I’ve been a clown. I’ve always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It’s my original self.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

We think too much and feel too little.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.