Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

See, winners embrace hard work.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O’Malley, you couldn’t even mention Mr. Rickey’s name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

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.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.