At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

The best way out is always through.

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.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

We want to play the AFC Cup every year.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

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

Bring them on.

The only way round is through.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.