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.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

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

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‚Let us pray.‘ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

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.

I am a grafter.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

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

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

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

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

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

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.