Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

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.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

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

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

No great thing is created suddenly.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Success has always been a great liar.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

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.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

My drive is other people’s success.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

I like to feel blonde all over.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

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.

There is no substitute for victory.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.