Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

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

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

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

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.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

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

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I am a tough guy.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.