Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

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

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Nothing will work unless you do.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I only want my work to make people happy.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I defy gravity.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

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.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

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

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I have goals.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Only you can control your future.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.