Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

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

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

I don’t know about the 2026 World Cup. But I would love to see Anirudh Thapa sending a cross to Jhingan and I would love to watch it from the stands.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

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

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

You fail only if you stop writing.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

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.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

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

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.