Bring them on.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

I teach children to be winners.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

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.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Young people can create beautiful things.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Never mistake motion for action.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Man is not made for defeat.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I do believe in self-help.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.