But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

People want to feel hopeful.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

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.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

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

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

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

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

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

What keeps me going is goals.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

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

Sometimes I lose my temper.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

I’ve always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.